Donovan - Atlantis

Abb. 1 Das Cover von Donovans Erfolgs-Single "Atlantis" aus dem Jahr 1968

Songtext

The continent of Atlantis was an island which lay before the great flood
in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean so great an area of land
that from her western shores those beautiful sailors journeyed to the South
and the North Americans with ease in their ships with painted sails

To the East Africa was a neighbour across a short strait of sea miles
the great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantian culture
the Antediluvian kings colonised the world
all the gods who play in the mythological dramas
in all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis

Knowing her fate Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the earth
on board were the twelve the poet the physician the farmer the scientist
the magician and the other so-called gods of our legends
though gods they were and as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new hail Atlantis

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be
way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be


Video

Donovan - Atlantis (1967)


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