Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.
This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive.
She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end.
So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started.
There is a huge difference between a singer who simply belts out a song that is on a page in front of them, and someone who can convey an entire experience with their voice. Telling not just a story with words, but taking you inside it and making you feel like you are there, with their interpretation.
[No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
[Donovan]
The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So greatan area of land, That from her western shores
Those beautifulsailors journeyed
To the South and the North Americas with ease,
In their ships with painted sails.
To them East Africa was aneighbour, Across a short strait of sea miles.
The great Egyptian age is But a remnant of
The Atlantian culture.
[No Angels]
Like a child who's running wild sinking deeper down the line I close my eyes to see the light
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
The antediluvian kings colonised the world
All the Gods who playin the mythological dramas In all legends from all lands were from far Atlantis. Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships toall 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 sing -dance and ring in the new age Hail Atlantis!
[No Angels]
Like a child who's running wild sinking deeper down the line I close my eyes to see the light
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be, Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
[No Angels]
Like a child who's running wild sinking deeper down the line I close my eyes to see the light
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be, Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be, Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be...
[Donovan]
My antediluvian baby I want to see you some day I want to see you some day. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
[Donovan]
The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So greatan area of land, That from her western shores
Those beautifulsailors journeyed
To the South and the North Americas with ease,
In their ships with painted sails.
To them East Africa was aneighbour, Across a short strait of sea miles.
The great Egyptian age is But a remnant of
The Atlantian culture.
[No Angels]
Like a child who's running wild sinking deeper down the line I close my eyes to see the light
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
The antediluvian kings colonised the world
All the Gods who playin the mythological dramas In all legends from all lands were from far Atlantis. Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships toall 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 sing -dance and ring in the new age Hail Atlantis!
[No Angels]
Like a child who's running wild sinking deeper down the line I close my eyes to see the light
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be, Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
[No Angels]
Like a child who's running wild sinking deeper down the line I close my eyes to see the light
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be, Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be, Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be...
[Donovan]
My antediluvian baby I want to see you some day I want to see you some day. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!
[Donovan & No Angels]
Way down below the ocean where I want to be she may be
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