Atlantis - Donovan

Esta canción es un poco tonta, muy representativa del flower power de la década del ’60, pero me gusta mucho por dos motivos: en primer lugar, porque es la que suena en la escena de Buenos muchachos en la que los personajes de Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) y Tommy De Vito (Joe Pesci) le dan una paliza brutal a Billy Batts (se la puede ver en éste link). En segundo lugar, porque inspiró el título de la novela Corazones en la Atlántida, de Stephen King, en la que se habla de la década del ’60 como una época tan perdida como ese continente legendario.

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 gods 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 gods of our legends.
Though gods 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!

CORO

Way down below the ocean
where I wanna be
she may be.
Way down below the ocean
where I wanna be
she may be…