Recently I came across a song that I hadnt heard in many years on You-Tube :) It not only has a nice melody it is based on facts Geronimo (1827-1909) was an Apache Indian chief who led raids on US soldiers after his Chiricahua reservation was abolished in 1876. After years of bloodshed he was captured following a hard-fought campaign against General George Crook, but escaped. He later surrendered, on condition that his men returned to their homes in Florida. Instead they were imprisoned :( later settled elsewhere In 1972 Michael Murphey was originally inspired to write this after seeing a photograph of Geronimo sitting in a Cadillac. He told American Songwriter magazine July/August 1987: The two images together - Geronimo and a Cadillac - just struck me as a song title. It was every irony I could ever think of about our culture in two words. Their attempt to make of him what we would define as a civilized person. That was the reason they put him in a Cadillac in the first place. He was actually in jail at the time. -(songfacts.net}-> youtube/watch?v=8cWC9A0qp1c
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:26:31 +0000
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