Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk)

Inspired by the category "Things That Are Not Steampunk" on Regretsy (www.regretsy.com), and (of course) those peerless purveyors of Euterpean epopee, Professor Elemental and Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer.
The tintypes and photographs used throughout the video are from the collection of Greene Connections (www.GreeneConne...), used with permission.
Lyrics are available by enabling the "English - Lyrics" track on the video closed captioning or interactive transcript controls.
CONTENT NOTE: this video makes use of visual effects which require disclosure under TH-cam's "altered or synthetic content" policy (to wit, fairly bad bluescreen compositing and simulated Nixie tube display).