Captain Albert Alexander Steam Powered Giraffe
<i></i>Capo on the 4th fret
When playing, keep the high e string open during the entire song.
When he was a [C]boy
he wanted to p[E7]lay
[Am]down by the s[F/C]ea
At age thirt[C]een
everyday after s[E7]chool
[Am]he would always [F/C]sail around the lake
[C]All the people would stand and stare
as he sa[E7]iled around with precision and care
With his [C]bi-corner hat and the way he would stand
he l[E7]ooked just like a Navy man
[Am]All the townsfolk would gather and sa[F/C]y, and sing away
[C] [F/C]
He'll be a b[G]rave seafarer some[F/C]day
But that C[C]aptain Albert A[F/C]lexander
[G]He'll go down in the [F/C]waves
By age twenty four
he had left the shore
and was sailing for the Queen
On a dark starry night
Albert awoke to the sound
of his Captain screaming as he was drowned
The Navy crew was taking a lick
pirates had invaded the ship
But Albert with one aimed harpoon
ignited their rum with a spark and soon
flames drove the pirates away
the Navy sang
Saved his crew from pirate slaughter
But that Captain Albert Alexander
He'll go down in the water
Now everyone dance
Dance. Dance.
Twenty some odd years later
On his ship The Sea Slater
He sailed into a mass of blubber
Gazing up to the sky
stood a large walrus
that was a hundred stories high, it meant no harm
The walrus was in a great deal of pain
It suffered from a tusk with tooth decay
Albert threw his anchor 'round it's tusk
with a little bit of pulling it was out by dusk
The walrus thanked Albert and sang, as he sailed away
Friend to sea urchin and me
But that Captain Albert Alexander
He'll go down in the sea
At a r[E/7]ipe old age lightning s[Am]truck from the sky
and s[E/7]plit Albert's vessel in [Am]two
One h[E/7]undred men fled[Am] for their lives
on ra[E/7]fts across the ocean [Am]blue
[Am]Albert stood at the s[F/C]tern of his ship
A g[Am]iant octopus had [F/C]him in it's grip
A v[Am]ortex of spiraling d[F/C]eath below ripped
and[Am] sharks and electric eels a[F/C]ll made the trip
to see [Am]Albert
[C]sink to the bottom of the [F/C]sea
[Am]Just before he went [F/C]down
[Am]he called out to his[F/C] crew
[Am]It's obvious that my [F/C]time has come
I'll l[Am]et this ending e[F/C]nsue
I've l[Am]ed an exciting nautical l[F/C]ife it would seem
and there's [Am]no better end than a [F/C]death by the sea
His crew sang
He went down in the sea
But that Captain Albert Alexander
He'll go down in history
That Captain Albert Alexander
He went down in the sea
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