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Sutter's Mill |
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Songer:Dan Fogelberg |
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In the spring of forty-seven, |
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So the story, it is told, |
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Old john sutter went to the mill site |
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Found a piece of shining gold. |
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Well, he took it to the city |
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Where the word, like wildfire, spread. |
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And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd |
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Left that stone in the river bed. |
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For they came like herds of locusts |
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Every woman, child and man |
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In their lumbering conestogas |
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They left their tracks upon the land. |
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(chorus) |
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Some would fail and some would prosper |
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Some would die and some would kill |
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Some would thank the lord for their deliverance |
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And some would curse john sutter's mill. |
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Well, they came from new york city, |
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And they came from alabam' |
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With their dreams of finding fortunes |
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In this wild unsettled land. |
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Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows |
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As they tried to cross the plains. |
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And some were lost in the rocky mountains |
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With their hands froze to the reins. |
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Oh... |
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(chorus) |
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Some would fail and some would prosper |
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Some would die and some would kill |
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Some would thank the lord for their deliverance |
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And some would curse john sutter's mill. |
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Well, some pushed on to california |
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And others stopped to take their rest. |
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And by the spring of eighteen-sixty |
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They had opened up the west. |
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And then the railroad came behind them |
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And the land was plowed and tamed, |
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When old john sutter went to meet his maker, |
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He'd not one penny to his name. |
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Oh... |
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(chorus) |
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Some would fail and some would prosper |
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Some would die and some would kill |
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Some would thank the lord for their deliverance |
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And some would curse john sutter's mill. |
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And some would curse john sutter's mill |
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Some men's thirsts are never filled. |
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