C
When he was a boy
E7
he wanted to play
Am F/C
down by the sea
C
At age thirteen
E7
everyday after school
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he would always sail around the lake
C
All the people would stand and stare
E7
as he sailed around with precision and care
C
With his bi-corner hat and the way he would stand
E7
he looked just like a Navy man
Am F/C
All the townsfolk would gather and say, and sing away
C F/C
Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
He'll be a brave seafarer someday
C F/C
But that Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
He'll go down in the waves
C
by age twenty four
E7
he had left the shore
Am F/C
and was sailing for the Queen
C
On a dark starry night
E7
Albert awoke to the sound
Am F/C
of his Captain screaming as he was drowned
C
The navy crew was taking a lick
E7
pirates had invaded the ship
C
But Albert with one aimed harpoon
E7
ignited their rum with a spark and soon
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flames from the pirates away, the navy sang
C F/C
Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
saved his crew from slaughter
C F/C
But that Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
He'll go down in the water
Now everyone dance
Dance. Dance.
C
twenty some odd years later
E7
on his ship the sea slater
Am F/C
he sailed into a mass of blubber
C
gazing up to the sky
E7
stood a large walbus
Am F/C
that was a hundred stories high, it meant no harm
C
the walrus was in a great deal of pain
E7
it suffered from a tusk with tooth decay
C
Albert threw his anchor round it’s tusk
E7
with a little bit of pulling it was out by dusk
Am F/C
the walrus thanked albert and sang, as he sailed away
C F/C
Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
friend to sea urchin and me
C F/C
But that Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
He'll go down in the sea
E/7 Am
At a ripe old age lightning struck from the sky
E/7 Am
and split Albert's vessel in two
E/7 Am
One hundred men fled for their lives
E/7 Am
on rafts across the ocean blue
Am F/C
Albert stood at the stern of his ship
Am F/C
A giant octopus had him in it's grip
Am F/C
A vortex of spiraling death below ripped
Am F/C
and sharks and electric eels all made the trip
Am
to see Albert
C F/C
sink to the bottom of the sea
Am F/C
Just before he went down
Am F/C
he called out to his crew
Am F/C
It's obvious that my time has come
Am F/C
I'll let this ending ensue
Am F/C
I've led an exciting nautical life it would seem
Am F/C
and there's no better end than a death by the sea
His crew sang
C F/C
Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
he went down in the sea
C F/C
But that Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
he’ll go down in history
C F/C
that Captain Albert Alexander
G F/C
he went down in the sea