Hills Of Geronimo

Hills of Geronimo
(Lyrics by Robert George, Music by Craig Bickhardt)

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
History 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
Fighting in defense of freedom’s birthright
Is what this land is all about

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

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