Steam Powered Giraffe - Captain Albert Alexander

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Steam Powered Giraffe performing their song "Captain Albert Alexander".
DP - Raul Urreola
Edited by - David Michael Bennett "The Spine"

"Captain Albert Alexander" is from the album 'Live at the Globe of
Yesterday's Tomorrow'. The album is now available on CD, iTunes, and other digital music distributors.

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"Captain Albert Alexander" Lyrics
Music & Lyrics by David Bennett

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 led 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

[cierra]

I've never seen a more adorable band. They just run on pure happiness.

[acelife]

When this song came out I was 3-4 years old, and my dad would sing this song to me to help me sleep when i couldn't. It worked every time without fail. He did that with me for many years. My father now passed away less than a month ago, and i turn 15 in 3 days. This song means so much to me, and has always and forever will make me smile :)

[archliter]

''It's just a story...a real story''
Spine seems to forget that does not make things better.

[Eddie-scrv]

"well how many of you like fishing?..Thats right NOBODY."
That part plus the salty face was my favorite part lol

[snailart]

AND THEY SAID MIME SCHOOL WAS POINTLESS. Pointless my butt. I could be a robot, mom. A SINGING ROBOT. 

[EnderGirlV]

WHY DID RABBIT TAKE A BITE OF THE AMAZING INCREDIBLE SPIDER HULK?

[therealdemen]

I find it so hard to believe this is live action. They look so animated, it's mind blowing. These guys are AWESOME.

[Jasmine-mhkf]

The Spine's voice is amazing, the Jon is hilarious ("Oh, is it me?") and Rabbit has sick dance moves! I absolutely love SPG's uniqueness.

[caseywoot]

Am I the only one who loves how The Spine can sing so high and low <3 <3

[natashafoster]

Watching Rabbit here made me think what an amazing signer she would be if she learned ASL. Half the language is the expressions you make, and a fair portion of storytelling in ASL involves miming. 😊

[AbbiXIII]

I showed this to my friend and now he can't stop referencing this song, specially Rabbits little antics.
He went as far as actually adding Captain Albert Alexander as an NPC to our DnD campaign XD

[sassysiren]

Bunny's movements are just astounding and I love it when she "glitches" while talking.

[SemiSpartan]

When they say "interpretive dancing", this is what happens in my head. and then my body. LOVE IT, forever and ever!

[Vampiregirl]

"That was a PUN."  I now make puns and say that.  I have driven my family mad.

[calliegeorge]

9 years later and this video is still 100% successful at curing the bad day blues.

[pcketwatch]

Whenever I see these videos, with the Jon singing, and Sam Luke on the drums, I always think Sam's shooting glances at the Jon, and thinking 'Soon...'

[olidon]

I love that even though Rabbit's had a gender change you can still watch their old videos and tell she's still the exact same character she used to be :]

[artgoblin]

*looks at a kid playing by the sea* "yeah he's gonna drown some day"

[xDeltaFx]

6:25 Sam takes his hat off, in respect to the Captain
*heart breaks*

[mzaite]

So fun story, there was a real guy named Albert Alexander from England, But he was a constable, and was the first person to ever receive penicillin to treat an infection in 1941. He was like an Astronaut for Antibiotics!


Also Rabbit had WAY too much sugar when they filmed this.