Dan Fogelberg - Sutter s Mill

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:31.57]In the Spring of Forty-seven [00:38.57]So the story it is told [00:45.85]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [00:52.96]Found a piece of shining gold [01:00.19]Well he took it to the city [01:07.19]Where the word like wildfire spread [01:14.07]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:21.43]Left that stone in the river bed [01:28.65]For they came like herds of locusts [01:35.75]Every woman child and man [01:42.99]In their lumbering Conestogas [01:50.06]They left their tracks upon the land [01:57.31]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:04.42]Some would die and some would kill [02:11.66]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:18.61]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:26.19]Well they came from New York City [02:33.27]And they came from Alabam' [02:40.52]With their dreams of finding fortunes [02:47.66]In this wild unsettled land [02:54.87]Well some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:02.07]As they tried to cross the plains [03:08.95]And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains [03:16.24]With their hands froze to the reins [03:23.19]Oh [03:23.55]Some would fail and some would prosper [03:30.56]Some would die and some would kill [03:37.79]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:44.80]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [04:20.62]Well some pushed on to California [04:27.48]And others stopped to take their rest [04:34.67]And by the Spring of Eighteen-sixty [04:41.97]They had opened up the west [04:48.95]And then the railroad came behind them [04:56.24]And the land was plowed and tamed [05:03.33]When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker [05:10.45]He'd not one penny to his name [05:17.27]Oh [05:17.60]Some would fail and some would prosper [05:24.67]Some would die and some would kill [05:31.82]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:38.76]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:45.84]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:53.27]Some men's thirsts are never filled