Page From the B. Lovell Sheet Music Collection
"Drowning Water"
Written by Port Sulphur Band
Publication September 29, 1895

Burning shore and empty sky
Choppy sea and sleepless nights
Death's reflection in the deep
Drowning water comfort me

Swallow stone and greet the dead
Give them what I wish I had
Cast no shadow in the deep
Drowning water comfort me

Drowning water, fill my lungs
Will it ever be enough?
Mourning's coming, on the tide
How we live is how we die

Body's broken heart's a grave
But water always has its way
Sixteen souls for you to keep
But drowning water, won't take me

Swallow stone and still I rise
I have no anchor but time
But the waves refuse my plea
Drowning water won't take me

Drowning water, fill my lungs
It will never be enough
Mourning's coming, on the tide
How we live is how we die