Marji's Ballad Book

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Atlantis!

Words and music by Marji Hazen:
All these people are searching for the real Atlantis. Some say the secret is told in carved faces newly discovered in Central America. Some say it is told in dreams.

KEY: Am
(Marji plays this one in Bm on a harp tuned to the key of D).

When the wind blows from the sea
Ancient voices are its sighing,
Whispering a memory
Of forgotten Millions dying.
Atlantis! Atlantis!
Where are your fabled pillars hidden?
Atlantis! Atlantis!
Why is all memory of you forbidden?

I dreamed a deep and silver stream
Winding near a counting stone.
Strange though its carvings were, they seemed
Familiar runes I once had know.
Atlantis! Atlantis!
Where do your drowned people lie?
Atlantis! Atlantis!
Were there a few who did not die?

If in a myth there is some truth,
If in a carven face a sign,
Then we much search all of the earth
Seeking that revealing line.
Atlantis! Atlantis!
Are you mother to our stumbling race?
Atlantis! Atlantis!
Why hide you now your stricken face?

(Repeat first 4 lines of v. 1)

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