Steam Powered Giraffe – Captain Albert Alexander (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Chords

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- Any question, comments or concerns, shoot me an email at [email protected]