辉 - Sutter s Mill

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:30.60]In the spring of 47 [00:37.59]So the story it is told [00:44.88]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [00:52.17]Found a piece of shinin' gold [00:59.28]Well he took it to the city [01:06.33]Where the word like wildfire spread [01:13.29]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:20.64]Left that stone in the river bed [01:27.87]For they came like herds of locusts [01:35.01]Every woman child and man [01:42.51]In their lumberin' Conestogas [01:49.05]They left their tracks upon the land [01:56.34]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:03.69]Some would die and some would kill [02:11.79]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:17.91]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:25.29]Well they came from New York City [02:32.79]And they came from Alabama [02:39.72]With their dreams of findin' fortunes [02:46.86]In this wild unsettled land [02:53.97]Well some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:01.35]As they tried to cross the plains [03:08.22]And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains [03:15.63]With their hands froze to the reins [03:22.26]Oh some would fail and some would prosper [03:29.76]Some would die and some would kill [03:37.08]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:41.85]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [03:48.54]Well some pushed on to California [04:26.85]And others stopped to take their rest [04:33.87]And by the Spring of 1860 [04:41.25]They had opened up the West [04:48.18]And then the railroad came behind them [04:55.50]And the land was plowed and tamed [05:02.40]When old John Sutter went to meet his maker [05:09.69]He'd not one penny to his name [05:16.47]Oh some would fail and some would prosper [05:23.88]Some would die and some would kill [05:30.90]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:38.04]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:45.12]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:52.26]Some men's thirsts are never filled