https://soundcloud.com/wabash-cannibal/hills-of-geronimo

Craig did the guitar and vocals...


Hills of Geronimo ©2011 Craig Bickhardt/Robert George BMI

I grip my iron Appaloosa
Far out in the Arizona night
Cold echoes from the red rock canyons
Join me in my midnight ride
I faintly hear the phantom war cries
Where proud Apache once called home
are those marauding ghosts behind me
Or the moon reflecting off my chrome

In the hills of Geronimo
A kingdom will be brought low
Hist’ry robs us of all we call holy
It crumbles so slowly here
Like the hills of Geronimo

I ride these haunted, crooked highways
Among the bones of old mesquite
And the lion’s roar of my old Harley
Brands a disappearing breed
Like it feels a lonely kinship
With a people who died wild and proud
Fightin’ in defense of freedom’s birth rite
Is what this land is all about

In the hills of Geronimo
A kingdom will be brought low
Hist’ry robs us of all we call holy
It crumbles so slowly here
Like the hills of Geronimo

The ride is rough beyond the highway signs
But at least I know the road is mine
I’d rather risk it all and sometimes lose
Than cruise along on roads I did not choose

In the hills of Geronimo
A kingdom will be brought low
Hist’ry robs us of all we call holy
It crumbles so slowly here
Like the hills of Geronimo

The hills of Geronimo
The hills of Geronimo…

Might be your best collab yet. Love the guitar hook, wish he woulda stopped sooner at the end...too many repeats, lol but
really good stuff. Reminds me of Tracy Chapmans Fast car guitar wise, or Dust In The Wind, yet its own

I read the lyric first so I could just listen, and I was really expecting a rock song! This sounds like the "unplugged" version to me...

Still very well done

Thanks guys. There's a version 2 but I clicked on it and it said, "file not found". This is the only version I've got.

I like it how it is. You could defintly make it into a rocker, and I see what Japov means, the lyric is a guy riding on a bike. But its also reflective and traveling at night seems to be slower than traveling in the day, more intimate and lonesome.

Think this guy did a great job. Hooks you right from the start.

Do a search on Craig Bickhardt...

Sounds like he has a track record in country. Hadnt heard of him, guess I know talent when I hear it....