Billy Joel - The Downeaster Alexa

standard tuning

Am   G    Am   Am   G     Am



         C          G      Am
Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa
        C                G            F
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound.
                   C             Dm
I have chartered a course to the Vineyard.
    C            G         F   
But tonight I am Nantucket bound.

           G              C             F
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday,
              G                Am                 G
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay.
F            G                C              F
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home,
             G                  Am             G
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 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 when 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.

Am   G    Am    Am   G    Am   Em   Am
           
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
More and more miles from shore every year,
Since they told me I can't sell no stripers.
And there's no luck in sword fishing 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.

Am      C  G    Am
Ya, ya, yaaa,   yo

Billy Joel - Honesty

original key: Bb


E-Em-Cmaj7-H7



E                  A         B                G#m
If you search for tenderness it isn't hard to find
A                C#m              D#m    B7  
You can have the love you need to live
E                   F#                     B               G#
And if you look for truthfulness you might just as well be blind
   A               D#            G#
It always seems to be so hard to give


Amaj7  B7  G#               C#m
Honest-y , is such a lonely word
A           B      E    G#
Everyone is so untrue
Amaj7  B7  G#             C#m
Honest-y , is hardly ever heard
A               B           E     B7
But mostly what I need from you


E            A            B                 G#m
I can always find someone to say they sympathize
A            C#m             D#m     B7
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve
E                     F#             B              G#
But I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies
A             D#              G#
All I want is someone to believe


C#m                 G#
I can find a lover, I can find a friend
B                     F#
I can have security until the bitter end
A          B               A        E
Anyone can comfort me with promises again
  F#7     B        G#      A
I know, I know , I knoooooow


E                 A         B                G#m
When I'm deep inside of me, don't be too concerned
A               C#m               D#m     B7       
I won't ask for nothing while I'm gone
E              F#             B          D#    G#m
When I want sincerity tell me where else can I turn?
       A                  D#       G#
Cause you're the one that I depend upon