ATLANTIS
Donovan - 1969


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 Americas 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 God's 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 God's of our legends. 
Though God's 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 want to be she may be, (5x)
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, 
I want to see you some day 
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, 
My antediluvian baby, (2x), I love you, girl, 
Girl, I want to see you some day. 
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah 
I want to see you some day, oh 
My antediluvian baby. 
My antediluvian baby, I want to see you 
My antediluvian baby, got to tell me where she gone 
I want to see you some day 
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeah 
Oh glub glub, down down, yeah 
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah