Capo on the 4th fret
When playing, keep the high e string open during the entire song.
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
Am F/C
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
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
Captain Albert Alexander
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
Captain Albert Alexander
Friend to sea urchin and me
But that Captain Albert Alexander
He'll go down in the sea
E7 Am
At a ripe old age lightning struck from the sky
E7 Am
and split Albert's vessel in two
E7 Am
One hundred men fled for their lives
E7 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
Captain Albert Alexander
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
-End-
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