Композиция была издана на альбоме «Storm Front» в 1989 году

The Downeaster Alexa Billy Joel

Композиция была выпущена на сборнике «Greatest Hits Volume III» в 1997 году

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Композиция была выпущена на сборнике «The Complete Hits Collection 1973-1997» в 1997 году

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Композиция была выпущена на сборнике «The Essential» в 2001 году

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Композиция была выпущена на сборнике «My Lives» в 2005 году

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Статистика ротаций Количество проигрываний композиции на радио в Москве

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Песня «The Downeaster Alexa» играла очень давно на радиостанции «Маяк».

Уже больше года её не слышно в эфире радиостанций Москвы.

До этого композиция играла только на радиостациях «ROCK FM» и «Маяк».

Текст песни Billy Joel — The Downeaster Alexa

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
And I'm cruising through Block 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 trawling 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