Possibly Drown

[r_u_gr8ful]

Okay....I can't figure out the whole March 10, 1981 - Louise King Conelly and Henry Cumming Lamar. :confused: Can someone shed some light on this for me?

[+Irie Pete]

From the lyrics and my foggy memory of someone else explaining it (not sure who)--The song was written by Zach(?) after an afternoon swim in the Augusta Canal in Georgia. There is an overgrown granite headstone on the canal bank near Rae’s Creek that reads: "Here on the 10th day of March 1891 were drowned Louise King Connelly and Henry Cumming Lamar."

So it has to do with a bit of smoke induced paranoia about drowning in the canal after reading the old tombstone commemorating the drowning deaths of two local boys.

Possibly Drown (from Lagmusic Records release)
(music by Lebowitz, Adams, Gill, Brogan; lyrics by Gill, Brogan)

I hear the ringing salutations of the crickets inviting my soul
With no responsibilities my heart feels light as I walk toward the water with my evening bowl

Awaiting mosquitoes and bumble bees and centipedes and slithy toads
On the trestle above the whistle blows
Carrying its load, carrying its load

Echo from the stereo of a passing car beneath the overpass
As I amble toward the water front
Passed the fishing dock and the powder mill
Along the red clay path

Italian stone masons built the bridge and the aqueduct long ago
On the trestle above the whistle blows
Carrying its load, carrying its load

I gotta hit the water and not the ground, but
I might possibly drown

On the tenth day of March 1891 were drowned Louise King Conelly and Henry Cumming Lamar

Long before the days of cyber space, alien warfare and electric cars
And as I swim in this canal I get a nervous feeling that I too may possibly drown

[r_u_gr8ful]

Ahhh...thanks for the clarification....I was thinking that it was 1981 and not 1891.

[steve7680768]

Sometimes it happens that you forgot the years but i have never seen too much difference as much you have created...
It looks strange...