Dan Fogelberg - Sutter s Mill

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:30.71]In the Spring of Forty seven [00:37.65]So the story  it is told [00:44.95]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [00:52.11]Found a piece of shining gold [00:59.27]Well  he took it to the city [01:06.43]Where the word  like wildfire  spread [01:13.51]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:20.65]Left that stone in the river bed [01:27.73]For they came like herds of locusts [01:35.09]Every woman  child and man [01:42.24]In their lumbering Conestogas [01:49.22]They left their tracks upon the land [01:56.38]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:03.55]Some would die and some would kill [02:10.77]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:18.02]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:25.29]Well  they came from New York City [02:32.52]And they came from Alabam' [02:39.71]With their dreams of finding fortunes [02:46.90]In this wild unsettled land [02:54.03]Well  some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:01.29]As they tried to cross the plains [03:08.26]And some were lost in the Rocky mountains [03:15.60]With their hands froze to the reins [03:22.32]Oh [03:22.51]Some would fail and some would prosper [03:29.77]Some would die and some would kill [03:36.95]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:44.16]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [04:19.84]Some pushed on to California [04:27.03]And others stopped to take their rest [04:34.00]And by the Spring of Eighteen-sixty [04:41.35]They had opened up the west [04:48.39]And then the railroad came behind them [04:55.59]And the land was plowed and tamed [05:02.50]When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker [05:09.67]He'd not one penny to his name [05:16.49]Oh [05:16.72]Some would fail and some would prosper [05:23.82]Some would die and some would kill [05:30.99]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:38.12]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:45.29]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:52.47]Some men's thirsts are never filled