Steam Powered Giraffe – Captain Albert Alexander (Ukulele)

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When he was a boy

              G
he wanted to play

Am           F
down by the sea

            C
At age thirteen

                  G
everyday after school

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he would always sail around the lake

C
All the people would stand and stare

        G
as he sailed around with precision and care

           Am
With his bi-corner hat and the way he would stand

      F
he looked just like a Navy man

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All the townsfolk would gather and say, and sing away

C                 G
Captain Albert Alexander

            Am                F
He'll be a brave seafarer someday

            C              G
But that Captain Albert Alexander

Am                    F
He'll go down in the waves

              C
By age twenty four

                G
he had left the shore

         Am              F
and was sailing for the Queen

                 C
On a dark starry night

                     G
Albert awoke to the sound

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of his Captain screaming as he was drowned

    C
The Navy crew was taking a lick

  G
pirates had invaded the ship

      Am
But Albert with one aimed harpoon

   F
ignited their rum with a spark and soon

 Am                       F
flames drove the pirates away

C                 G
Captain Albert Alexander

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Saved his crew from pirate slaughter

          C                G
But that Captain Albert Alexander

          Am           F
He'll go down in the water

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Now everyone dance

G *     Am/F
Dance. Dance.

                       C
Twenty some odd years later

                     G
On his ship The Sea Slater

   Am                  F
He sailed into a mass of blubber

                 C
Gazing up to the sky

                G
stood a large walrus

            Am              F                 C
that was a hundred stories high, it meant no harm

C
The walrus was in a great deal of pain

    G
It suffered from a tusk with tooth decay

Am                                  F
Albert threw his anchor 'round it's tusk

                                            Am
with a little bit of pulling it was out by dusk

                              F
The walrus thanked Albert and sang, as he sailed away

C                 G
Captain Albert Alexander

Am                       F
Friend to sea urchin and me

         C                 G
But that Captain Albert Alexander

         Am          F
He'll go down in the sea

     G                      Am
At a ripe old age lightning struck from the sky

    G                        Am
and split Albert's vessel in two

    G                Am
One hundred men fled for their lives

    G                     Am
on rafts across the ocean blue

Am                   F
Albert stood at the stern of his ship

  Am                F
A giant octopus had him in it's grip

   Am                  F
A vortex of spiraling death below ripped

     Am *                    F *
and sharks and electric eels all made the trip

        Am
to see Albert

C                         F
sink to the bottom of the sea

Am                  F
Just before he went down

   Am                F
he called out to his crew

      Am             F
It's obvious that my time has come

     Am               F
I'll let this ending ensue

     Am                       F
I've led an exciting nautical life it would seem

            Am                   F
and there's no better end than a death by the sea

C                 G
Captain Albert Alexander

        Am          F
He went down in the sea

         C                 G
But that Captain Albert Alexander

          Am       F
He'll go down in history

     C                 G
That Captain Albert Alexander

        Am   F      C
He went down in the sea