Atlantis (Donovan song)

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"Atlantis" is a song written and performed by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. Produced by Mickie Most for Donovan's seventh studio album Barabajagal (1969), the song tells of the mythological antediluvian civilization of Atlantis. Donovan states in his 2005 autobiography The Hurdy Gurdy Man that the song was originally inspired by his reading the 1886 occult novel A Dweller on Two Planets, along with similar legends of early civilizations found in Irish legends of the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Vedas of ancient India. However, the description of Atlantis in the song's lyrics draws quite heavily on Ignatius L. Donnelly's 1882 book, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. The song has a somewhat unusual structure for a pop song, with the first section of the song being an extended spoken prose-poem over an instrumental background. This is followed by a sung coda consisting mainly of a repeated three-line verse (Way down below the ocean / where I want to be / She may be), with overdubbed interjections...

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