晓_淞 - Sutter s MiII

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:29.89]In the spring of 47 [00:36.88]So the story  it is told [00:44.13]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [00:51.21]Found a piece of shinin' gold [00:58.39]Well  he took it to the city [01:05.47]Where the word like wildfire spread [01:12.58]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:19.69]Left that stone in the river bed [01:26.94]For they came like herds of locusts [01:34.13]Every woman  child and man [01:41.29]In their lumberin' Conestogas [01:48.35]They left their tracks upon the land [01:55.58]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:02.70]Some would die and some would kill [02:09.92]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:17.10]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:24.47]Well  they came from New York City [02:31.64]And they came from Alabama [02:38.81]With their dreams of findin' fortunes [02:46.06]In this wild unsettled land [02:53.18]Well  some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:00.35]As they tried to cross the plains [03:07.40]And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains [03:14.70]With their hands froze to the reins [03:21.44]Oh  some would fail and some would prosper [03:28.93]Some would die and some would kill [03:36.11]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:43.28]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [04:18.98]Well  some pushed on to California [04:26.19]And others stopped to take their rest [04:33.06]And by the Spring of 1860 [04:40.54]They had opened up the West [04:47.35]And then the railroad came behind them [04:54.64]And the land was plowed and tamed [05:01.63]When old John Sutter went to meet his maker [05:08.87]He'd not one penny to his name [05:15.55]Oh  some would fail and some would prosper [05:22.98]Some would die and some would kill [05:30.03]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:37.27]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:44.37]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:51.55]Some men's thirsts are never filled