Atlantis (Listen to midi) (Listen to sample)

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Way down below the ocean

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where I wanna be, she may be. (4 x )

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1, The Continent of Atlantis was an island which lay before the Great

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Flood in an area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.

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So great an area of land, that from her western shores those beautiful

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sailors journeyed to the South and North Americas with ease in their

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ships with painted sails.

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To the east Africa was a neighbour across a short strait of sea miles.

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The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantian culture.

+ CHORUS ( 3 x )

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2. The antediluvian kings colonized the world;

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all the gods who play in the mythological dramas in all legends from

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all lands were from fair Atlantis.

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Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the earth.

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On board were the twelve : The poet, the physician, the farmer, the

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scientist, the magician and the other so-called gods of our legends.

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Though gods they were and as the elders of our time chose to remain

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blind, let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new.

Hail, Atlantis ! + CHORUS (rep. and fade)

(Donovan)