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When he was a boy
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he wanted to play
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down by the sea

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At age thirteen
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everyday after school
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he would always sail around the lake

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

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


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by age twenty four
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he had left the shore
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and was sailing for the Queen

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On a dark starry night
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Albert awoke to the sound
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of his Captain screaming as he was drowned


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The navy crew was taking a lick
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pirates had invaded the ship
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But Albert with one aimed harpoon
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ignited their rum with a spark and soon
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flames from the pirates away, the navy sang

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Captain Albert Alexander
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saved his crew from slaughter
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But that Captain Albert Alexander
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He'll go down in the water

Now everyone dance
Dance. Dance.

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twenty some odd years later
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on his ship the sea slater
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he sailed into a mass of blubber

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gazing up to the sky
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stood a large walbus
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that was a hundred stories high, it meant no harm

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the walrus was in a great deal of pain
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it suffered from a tusk with tooth decay
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Albert threw his anchor round it’s tusk
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with a little bit of pulling it was out by dusk
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the walrus thanked albert and sang, as he sailed away

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Captain Albert Alexander
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friend to sea urchin and me
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But that Captain Albert Alexander
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He'll go down in the sea


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

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

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

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Captain Albert Alexander
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he went down in the sea
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But that Captain Albert Alexander
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he’ll go down in history 

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that Captain Albert Alexander
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he went down in the sea