Atlantis Rises

ATLANTIS RISES After 7000 years old Atlantis alluva sudden come up yesterday Popped up – skinny end first – like a cork No time ta think o’ displaced water tidal waves all that stuff Shot up not a periscope o’ warnin’ ner nothin’ Saucer strip in plain sight Climbed so many miles in the sky a drippin’ like mad And belly-flopped right where they said it useta be Scared hell outa 10,000 boy scouts at Disney World Gotta be one o’ tha best danged things ever happened to the east coast what with the shows all movin’ ta Californee. OLD ATLANTIS THERE SHE FLOATS THERE SHE BE BOY THAR SHE BLOWS! They dispatched a team o’ guys from Wood’s Hole right away Claimed her right away fer the old U S of A That Plato he weren’t no dumbbell He knew Oughta eerect a statchew right on Poseidon’s front lawn in front o’ the Grand Canal. I didn’t see all this ya know Onlyest seen what’s in the mornin’ paper Front page pitchers o’ them muddy mountains and a tanker use ta be sittin’ on the ocean floor. Well golldang! They’re gonna put up a big mewseeum so’s as folks kin git a good look so’s they kin touch all that crust stuff. What with the ice caps a meltin who knows folks may be movin back to old Atlantis Wouldn’t ya know it now folks is a talkin’ bout a place called Mu I tell ya…………………………………..