Through the overgrowth
Of the underbrush
Shone a fossil tooth

That I must have dropped
Very long ago
Which reminded me

How we wound up where we are now

Right through those trees

I'm not insane
That's where we came
Into this place

And if you squint
If you squint your brain
I'll get my paints

And I'll try to paint

Canajoharie

Canajoharie
Where a frog flipper first evolved on the day
When a daring mudskipper dragged itself away


Out of Canajoharie
Canajoharie

Call me sentimental
But I want to go back
And commemorate the place

With a historical plaque

It's as if a fin

Reaching from the swamp
Grabbed me by my arm
Tried to pull me in

But my arm was strong
And the fin was an
Inaccurately reconstructed fake


It was right through those trees
I'm not insane

That's where the fin
Tried to drag me in
Don't look at me

Look at where I'm pointing
Close your eyes
See what I see


Canajoharie
Canajoharie

I get the creeping feeling
All my old friends are gone
And that this baby tooth

No longer fits in my skull

If you can draw

It in the air
Or write it down
Then you weren't there

What's gone is mute
Someone changed the truth
They swapped the proof

And there's nothing left of

Canajoharie

Canajoharie
Where a frog flipper first evolved on the day
When a daring mudskipper dragged itself away


Where a rocket ship
Experiment went awry

When the prototype
Exploded on the launching site


Like in Canajoharie
Canajoharie
Call me sentimental

But I want to go back
And commemorate the place
With a historical plaque