Dan Fogelberg、Geolin - Sutters mill

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:29.72]In the spring of forty-seven [00:36.85]So the story it is told [00:44.13]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [00:51.48]Found a piece of shining gold [00:58.69]Well he took it to the city [01:05.99]Where the word like wildfire spread [01:13.21]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:20.54]Left that stone in the river bed [01:28.24]For they came like herds of locusts [01:35.15]Every woman child and man [01:42.27]In their lumbering Conestogas [01:49.39]They left their tracks upon the land [01:56.93]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:04.12]Some would die and some would kill [02:11.39]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:18.55]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:26.07]Well they came from New York City [02:33.23]And they came from Alabam' [02:40.46]With their dreams of finding fortunes [02:47.81]In this wild unsettled land [02:54.89]Well some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:02.23]As they tried to 'cross the plains [03:09.41]And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains [03:16.80]With their hands froze to the reins [03:24.11]Some would fail and some would prosper [03:31.40]Some would die and some would kill [03:38.66]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:45.77]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [04:22.36]Well some pushed on to California [04:29.45]And others stopped to take their rest [04:36.69]And by the spring of eighteen-sixty [04:44.02]They had opened up the west [04:51.29]And then the railroad came behind them [04:58.71]And the land was plowed and tamed [05:05.72]When old John Sutter went to meet his maker [05:13.02]He'd not one penny to his name [05:20.48]Some would fail and some would prosper [05:27.70]Some would die and some would kill [05:35.04]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:42.07]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:49.35]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:56.82]Some men's thirsts are never filled