LT、郭睿言 - Sutter s Mill

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [01:02.58]In the spring of 47 [01:09.06]So the story it is told [01:15.78]Old John Sutter went to the mill site [01:22.53]Found a piece of shinin' gold [01:29.25]Well he took it to the city [01:35.85]Where the word like wildfire spread [01:42.33]And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd [01:48.93]Left that stone in the river bed [01:55.83]For they came like herds of locusts [02:02.46]Every woman child and man [02:09.24]In their lumberin' Conestogas [02:13.59]They left their tracks upon the land [02:22.11]Some would fail and some would prosper [02:28.98]Some would die and some would kill [02:35.49]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [02:42.51]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [02:49.17]Well they came from New York City [02:55.86]And they came from Alabama [03:02.25]With their dreams of findin' fortunes [03:08.82]In this wild unsettled land [03:15.09]Well some fell prey to hostile arrows [03:21.57]As they tried to cross the plains [03:25.89]And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains [03:34.53]With their hands froze to the reins [03:38.94]Oh some would fail and some would prosper [03:47.67]Some would die and some would kill [03:54.21]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [03:59.01]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [04:07.65]Well some pushed on to California [04:14.49]And others stopped to take their rest [04:20.70]And by the Spring of 1860 [04:24.69]They had opened up the West [04:33.90]And then the railroad came behind them [04:40.95]And the land was plowed and tamed [04:44.82]When old John Sutter went to meet his maker [04:54.81]He'd not one penny to his name [04:58.50]Oh some would fail and some would prosper [05:07.17]Some would die and some would kill [05:13.38]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance [05:20.04]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:26.19]And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [05:32.97]Some men's thirsts are never filled