Captain Albert Alexander

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When he was a boy
 He wanted to play
 Down by the sea
 At age thirteen
 Everyday after school
 He would always sail around the lake
 All the people would stand and stare
 As he sailed around with precision and care
 With his bi-corner hat and the way he would stand
 He looked just like a Navy man
 All the townsfolk would gather and say, and sing away
 Captain Albert Alexander
 He'll be a brave seafarer someday
 But that Captain Albert Alexander
 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
 At a ripe old age lightning struck from the sky
 And split Albert's vessel in two
 One hundred men fled for their lives
 On rafts across the ocean blue
 Albert stood at the stern of his ship
 A giant octopus had him in it's grip
 A vortex of spiraling death below ripped
 And sharks and electric eels all made the trip
 To see Albert
 Sink to the bottom of the sea
 Just before he went down
 He called out to his crew
 It's obvious that my time has come
 I'll let this ending ensue
 I've lead an exciting nautical life it would seem
 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
 

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Duration
06:47
Key
4
Tempo
77 BPM

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