[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:29.60]In the spring of forty-seven' [00:36.63]So the story it is told [00:43.96]Old john sutter went to the mill site [00:50.80]Found a piece of shining gold [00:58.21]Well he took it to the city [01:05.11]Where the word' like wildfire' spread [01:12.30]And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:19.50]Left that stone in the river bed [01:26.62]For they came like herds of locusts [01:33.83]Every woman' child and man [01:41.03]In their lumbering conestogas [01:48.11]They left their tracks upon the land [01:55.38]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:02.38]Some would die and some would kill [02:09.51]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance [02:16.82]And some would curse john sutter's mill [02:24.07]Well' they came from new york city' [02:31.07]And they came from alabam' [02:38.26]With their dreams of finding fortunes [02:45.44]In this wild unsettled land [02:52.76]Well' some fell prey to hostile arrows [02:59.82]As they tried to cross the plains [03:07.02]And some were lost in the rocky mountains [03:14.27]With their hands froze to the reins [03:21.28]Oh [03:21.66]Some would fail and some would prosper [03:28.54]Some would die and some would kill [03:35.69]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance [03:42.82]And some would curse john sutter's mill [04:18.63]Well' some pushed on to california [04:25.56]And others stopped to take their rest [04:32.75]And by the spring of eighteen-sixty [04:40.19]They had opened up the west [04:47.31]And then the railroad came behind them [04:54.13]And the land was plowed and tamed' [05:01.25]When old john sutter went to meet his maker' [05:08.50]He'd not one penny to his name [05:15.31]Oh [05:15.75]Some would fail and some would prosper [05:22.56]Some would die and some would kill [05:29.79]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance [05:36.86]And some would curse john sutter's mill [05:43.99]And some would curse john sutter's mill [05:51.11]Some men's thirsts are never filled