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Title: Music Club - " Downeaster Alexa" - Billy Joel (a fav)
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URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_bVMrYc6B4
Published: Sep 30, 2006
Author: jessejane
Post Date: 2006-09-30 21:52:59 by jessejane
Keywords: music, billyjoel, salt of the earth
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Comments: 20
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Source credit: Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" And I'm cruising through Long Island Sound I have charted a course to the Vineyard But tonight I am Nantucket bound ==== We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone ==== So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa" And I go where the ocean is deep There are giants out there in the canyons And a good captain can't fall asleep ==== I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes I know there's fish out there but where God only knows They say these waters aren't what they used to be But I've got people back on land who count on me ==== So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa" And if you work with the rod and the reel Tell my wife I am 'trolling Atlantis And I still have my hands on the wheel ==== Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa" More and more miles from shore every year Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers And there's no luck in swordfishing here. ==== I was a bayman like my father was before Can't make a living as a bayman anymore There ain't much future for a man who works the sea But there ain't no island left for islanders like me
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If you ever get the chance to go to CapeCod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and beyond - please take it - you'll not regret the experience.
If you ever get the chance to go to CapeCod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and beyond - please take it - you'll not regret the experience. Duly noted loddie.. I would love to stand on a Northern shore.
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http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/class/mobydick.html Just before 9/11 PBS ran a great show on the whaling ship the Essex. What a whale of a story! "If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Ive never heard this song .. I can understand why its a favorite .. great song..
I've always liked Billy Joel. Great song, thanks.
Going to save these links Robin!! Thanks!!!!!
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Glad you enjoyed it!! Billy Joel's daughter with Christie Brinkley is named 'Alexa'..
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Glad you enjoyed it! :)
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I saw Billy Joel together w/Elton John two years ago. It was a knockout show.
Oh man!! I bet it was killer!! Now step into your way back machine... waaaaaaaaay back.. I saw Elton live with .............Kiki Dee (Don't go Breakin' my Heart, fame) .. at the Oakland Colluseum.. for my BIRTHDAY. I'm only 23, still.. of course. ;) It was such a great show.. I still have the pics. He had flourescent painted ping pong balls on wires sticking out from his costume.. the place was lit with black lights... All you could see for a while was ... colored balls wafting back and forth across the stage.. ROFL!!! ..
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When you get to Nantucket Island, please take in the Whaling Museum there - that one ticket will make it all worthwhile. Simply unbelievable. Check out the http://www.whalingmuseum.org/ for more details. Happy harpooning, everyone.
Hilarious, Ms. 23 :)
There's a Rosemary Clooney song....nah.....I better not. I might attract Cyni.
Have you been to Target lately?? ............now stop that..... that was not nice............
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! That was too sweet!! Thanks loddie!! Chair dancing the whole time.. heheheh... I did miss the ping pong balls though... ;P
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Should anyone wish to get into lymericks this evening... But, it's time to get the biscuits in the oven, and the buns in the bed here. Have fun, all.
Have fun, all. Nites.
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Lyrics:
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The Sea is a bitch for a mistress.
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To: jessejane. everyone here
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Ive never heard this song .. I can understand why its a favorite .. great song..
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I saw Billy Joel together w/Elton John two years ago. It was a knockout show.
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When you get to Nantucket Island,
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please take in the Whaling Museum there - that one ticket will make it all worthwhile.
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Nantucket
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But, it's time to get the biscuits in the oven, and the buns in the bed here.
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