Geronimo
(Lyrics: Moorcock, with A. Bouchard;
Music: Falcone, with A.Bouchard, Moorcock, Oxymoron, Segel, Shaw, Slattery)

Albert Bouchard: Drums, Banjo,Lead & Backing Vocals
Don Falcone: Piano, Organ, E-Percussion
Michael Moorcock: “Geronimo” & Backing Vocals, Harmonica
Monty Oxymoron: Conga, Shaker, Cajon, Locomotive
Jonathan Segel: Violins
Adrian Shaw: Bass Guitar
Mick Slattery: Guitars

Off to Pasadena
Shuffle on to Buffalo
Sweet Iron Orchid...
Geronimo!

“How do you mean my love
Virtuous?”
“I’m not thoroughly sure
I found it in a book once

I should like to try it for awhile
Oh Dearest Iron Orchid
It’s supposed to involve self denial
Which means doing
nothing pleasurable”
And the sea sighed

Everybody sings
Carrie Joan, she kept her boiler going
Carrie Joan, she filled it full of wine.
Carrie Joan didn’t stop her rowing
She had to get to Brooklyn by quarter
past nine!

They gave him his augurs at Racine-Virginia
Saying steam-up, you’re way behind time
It ain’t 98, it’s old 97
You got to get on down that old
Nantucket line!

“Where do you find these old songs?”
“I came across some platters
Kept in top condition
By a succession of owners”

The sky contained a sunset
Silhouetted purple hills
A herd of bison in lunette
The 7th cavalry thrills…

“The 19th century collection
Contains a large spaceship
They used to travel space
Now no one wants to leave earth’s grip

I could time travel and visit
My beloved century
But what could I tell them
That the future will end disappointingly”

“You may see it someday
If you’re not too virtuous”

And everybody sings…
Carrie Joan, she kept her boiler going...

“But mother you have grown me
Put me in an incubator
When you were a man
Rare because so few are born
Perhaps that’s why I’m drawn
To that past of blood and stone”