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Album: 
Year:  2009
Difficulty: 
5.9
(Intermediate)
Key: C#mChords
E E  
When he was a boy
G#7 G#7
he wanted to play
C#m C#m A A
down by the sea

E E
At age thirteen
G#7 G#7
everyday after school
C#m C#m A A
he would always sail around the lake

E E
All the people would stand and stare
G#7 G#7
as he sailed around with precision and care
E E
With his bi-corner hat and the way he would stand
G#7 G#7
he looked just like a Navy man
C#m C#m A A
All the townsfolk would gather and say, and sing away

E E A A
Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
He'll be a brave seafarer someday
E E A A
But that Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
He'll go down in the waves

E E
By age twenty four
G#7 G#7
he had left the shore
C#m C#m A A
and was sailing for the Queen

E E
On a dark starry night
G#7 G#7
Albert awoke to the sound
C#m C#m A A
of his Captain screaming as he was drowned

E E
The Navy crew was taking a lick
G#7 G#7
pirates had invaded the ship
E E
But Albert with one aimed harpoon
G#7 G#7
ignited their rum with a spark and soon
C#m C#m A A
flames drove the pirates away ... the Navy sang

E E A A
Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
Saved his crew from pirate slaughter
E E A A
But that Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
He'll go down in the water

E E
Now everyone dance
G#7 G#7 C#m C#m A A
Dance. Dance. Daaaaaaaaaance

E E
Twenty some odd years later
G#7 G#7
On his ship The Sea Slater
C#m C#m A A
He sailed into a mass of blubber

E E
Gazing up to the sky
G#7 G#7
stood a large walrus
C#m C#m A A E E
that was a hundred stories high, it meant no harm

G#7 G#7
The walrus was in a great deal of pain
E E
It suffered from a tusk with tooth decay
G#7 G#7
Albert threw his anchor 'round it's tusk
C#m C#m
with a little bit of pulling it was out by dusk
A A
The walrus thanked Albert and sang, as he sailed away

E E A A
Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
Friend to sea urchin and me
E E A A
But that Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
He'll go down in the sea

G#7 G#7 C#m C#m
At a ripe old age lightning struck from the sky
G#7 G#7 C#m C#m
and split Albert's vessel in two
G#7 G#7 C#m C#m
One hundred men fled for their lives
G#7 G#7 C#m C#m
on rafts across the ocean blue

C#m C#m A A
Albert stood at the stern of his ship
C#m C#m A A
A A giant octopus had him in it's grip
C#m C#m A A
A A vortex of spiraling death below ripped
C#m C#m A A
and sharks and electric eels all made the trip
C#m C#m
to see Albert
E E A A
sink to the bottom of the sea

C#m C#m A A
Just before he went down
C#m C#m A A
he called out to his crew
C#m C#m A A
It's obvious that my time has come
C#m C#m A A
I'll let this ending ensue
C#m C#m A A
I've led an exciting nautical life it would seem
C#m C#m A A
and there's no better end than a death by the sea ... His crew sang

E E A A
Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
He went down in the sea
E E A A
But that Captain Albert Alexander
B B A A
He'll go down in history

E E A A
That Captain Albert Alexander
B B E E A A B B E E B B E E
He went down in the seeeee-ee--hee-hea!

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