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Captain Albert Alexander

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Steam Powered Giraffe (SPG) is an American steampunk musical comedy project formed in San Diego in 2008, self-described as "a musical act that combines robot pantomime, puppetry, ballet, comedy, projections, and music". Created and led by identical twins David Michael Bennett and Isabella "Bunny" Bennett, the act combines music and improvisational comedy on-stage, although their studio works focus almost solely on music.

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Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

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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 drove the pirates away the Navy sang

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

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Now everyone dance
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Dance Dance Daaaaaaaaaance

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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 walrus
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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 seeeee-ee--hee-hea