Sutter’s Mill
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[Verse 1] In the spring of '47 So the story, it is told Old John Sutter went to the mill site Found a piece of shining gold [Verse 2] Well, he took it to the city Where the word, like wildfire, spread And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd Left that stone in the river bed [Verse 3] For they came like herds of locusts Every woman, child and man In their lumbering Conestogas They left their tracks upon the land [Chorus] Some would fail and some would prosper Some would die and some would kill Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [Verse 4] Well, they came from New York City And they came from Alabam' With their dreams of finding fortunes In this wild unsettled land [Verse 5] Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows As they tried to cross the plains And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains With their hands froze to the reins [Chorus] Oh, some would fail and some would prosper Some would die and some would kill Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [Verse 6] Well, some pushed on to California And others stopped to take their rest And by the spring of 1860 They had opened up the west [Verse 7] And then the railroad came behind them And the land was plowed and tamed When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker He'd not one penny to his name [Chorus] Oh, some would fail and some would prosper Some would die and some would kill Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance And some would curse John Sutter's Mill [Outro] And some would curse John Sutter's Mill Some men's thirsts are never filled
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Credits
- Writers
- Dan Fogelberg