《Sutter’s Mill》歌词

[00:00:01] Sutter's Mill

[00:00:04] Songer:Dan Fogelberg

[00:00:29] In the spring of forty-seven'

[00:00:36] So the story' it is told'

[00:00:43] Old john sutter went to the mill site

[00:00:50] Found a piece of shining gold

[00:00:58] Well' he took it to the city

[00:01:05] Where the word' like wildfire' spread

[00:01:12] And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd

[00:01:19] Left that stone in the river bed

[00:01:26] For they came like herds of locusts

[00:01:33] Every woman' child and man

[00:01:41] In their lumbering conestogas

[00:01:48] They left their tracks upon the land

[00:01:55] Some would fail and some would prosper

[00:02:02] Some would die and some would kill

[00:02:09] Some would thank the lord for their deliverance

[00:02:16] And some would curse john sutter's mill

[00:02:24] Well' they came from new york city'

[00:02:31] And they came from alabam'

[00:02:38] With their dreams of finding fortunes

[00:02:45] In this wild unsettled land

[00:02:52] Well' some fell prey to hostile arrows

[00:02:59] As they tried to cross the plains

[00:03:07] And some were lost in the rocky mountains

[00:03:14] With their hands froze to the reins

[00:03:21] Oh

[00:03:21] Some would fail and some would prosper

[00:03:28] Some would die and some would kill

[00:03:35] Some would thank the lord for their deliverance

[00:03:42] And some would curse john sutter's mill

[00:04:18] Well' some pushed on to california

[00:04:25] And others stopped to take their rest

[00:04:32] And by the spring of eighteen-sixty

[00:04:40] They had opened up the west

[00:04:47] And then the railroad came behind them

[00:04:54] And the land was plowed and tamed'

[00:05:01] When old john sutter went to meet his maker'

[00:05:08] He'd not one penny to his name

[00:05:15] Oh

[00:05:15] Some would fail and some would prosper

[00:05:22] Some would die and some would kill

[00:05:29] Some would thank the lord for their deliverance

[00:05:36] And some would curse john sutter's mill

[00:05:43] And some would curse john sutter's mill

[00:05:56] Some men's thirsts are never filled