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[ar:Dan Fogelberg]
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Sutters Mill
[00:31.33]In the Spring of Forty-seven,
[00:38.17]So the story, it is told,
[00:45.32]Old John Sutter went to the mill site
[00:51.77]Found a piece of shining gold.
[00:59.21]Well, he took it to the city
[01:06.84]Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
[01:13.21]And old John Sutter soon came to wish hed
[01:21.10]Left that stone in the river bed.
[01:28.33]For they came like herds of locusts
[01:35.49]Every woman, child and man
[01:42.77]In their lumbering Conestogas
[01:49.08]They left their tracks upon the land.
(Chorus)
[05:17.33][03:23.51][01:56.98]Some would fail and some would prosper
[05:24.70][03:30.27][02:03.71]Some would die and some would kill
[05:31.89][03:37.47][02:11.30]Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
[05:39.01][03:44.66][02:18.51]And some would curse John Sutters Mill.
[02:25.96]Well, they came from New York City,
[02:32.95]And they came from Alabam
[02:40.10]With their dreams of finding fortunes
[02:47.37]In this wild unsettled land.
[02:54.51]Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
[03:01.70]As they tried to cross the plains.
[03:08.46]And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
[03:15.20]With their hands froze to the reins.
[03:23.05]Oh...
(Chorus)
[04:21.30]Well, some pushed on to California
[04:28.44]And others stopped to take their rest.
[04:34.93]And by the Spring of Eighteen-sixty
[04:42.58]They had opened up the west.
[04:49.69]And then the railroad came behind them
[04:57.14]And the land was plowed and tamed,
[05:03.02]When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker,
[05:10.29]Hed not one penny to his name.
[05:16.87]Oh...
(Chorus)
[05:46.65]And some would curse John Sutters Mill
[05:53.77]Some mens thirsts are never filled.