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Plays: 45 Jiggs: 1 Album: Country Special Hits 1 Genre: Country Language: English Artist: WuthChanthaburi Tags: Artist : Dan Fogelberg Lyrics: Sutter Mill<br />
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In the spring of forty-seven,<br />
So the story, it is told,<br />
Old john sutter went to the mill site<br />
Found a piece of shining gold.<br />
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Well, he took it to the city<br />
Where the word, like wildfire, spread.<br />
And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd<br />
Left that stone in the river bed.<br />
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For they came like herds of locusts<br />
Every woman, child and man<br />
In their lumbering conestogas<br />
They left their tracks upon the land.<br />
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(chorus)<br />
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Some would fail and some would prosper<br />
Some would die and some would kill<br />
Some would thank the lord for their deliverance<br />
And some would curse john sutter's mill.<br />
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Well, they came from new york city,<br />
And they came from alabam'<br />
With their dreams of finding fortunes<br />
In this wild unsettled land.<br />
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Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows<br />
As they tried to cross the plains.<br />
And some were lost in the rocky mountains<br />
With their hands froze to the reins.<br />
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Oh...<br />
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(chorus)<br />
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Well, some pushed on to california<br />
And others stopped to take their rest.<br />
And by the spring of eighteen-sixty<br />
They had opened up the west.<br />
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And then the railroad came behind them<br />
And the land was plowed and tamed,<br />
When old john sutter went to meet his maker,<br />
He'd not one penny to his name.<br />
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Oh...<br />
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(chorus)<br />
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And some would curse john sutter's mill<br />
Some men's thirsts are never filled.<br />