Dan Fogelberg - Sutter s Mill

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:30.39]In the spring of forty seven [00:37.40]So the story it is told [00:44.83]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [00:51.98]Found a piece of shining gold [00:59.20]Well he took it to the city [01:06.49]Where the word like wildfire spread [01:13.81]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:21.03]Left that stone in the river bed [01:28.50]For they came like herds of locusts [01:35.43]Every woman child and man [01:42.83]In their lumbering Conestogas [01:49.99]They left their tracks upon the land [01:57.33]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:04.67]Some would die and some would kill [02:11.89]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:19.19]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:26.63]Well they came from New York City [02:33.84]And they came from Alabam' [02:41.01]With their dreams of finding fortunes [02:48.30]In this wild unsettled land [02:55.43]Well some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:02.84]As they tried to 'cross the plains [03:09.90]And some were lost in the rocky mountains [03:17.20]With their hands froze to the reins [03:24.36]Oh [03:24.77]Some would fail and some would prosper [03:31.83]Some would die and some would kill [03:39.17]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:46.19]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [04:22.79]Well some pushed on to California [04:29.96]And others stopped to take their rest [04:37.23]And by the Spring of eighteen sixty [04:44.55]They had opened up the west [04:51.85]And then the railroad came behind them [04:59.15]And the land was plowed and tamed [05:06.41]When old John Sutter went to meet his maker [05:13.45]He'd not one penny to his name [05:20.65]Oh [05:21.03]Some would fail and some would prosper [05:28.25]Some would die and some would kill [05:35.49]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:42.73]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:49.88]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:57.33]Some men's thirsts are never filled