Sutter's Mill 歌詞
Sutter's Mill - Deja Vu
In the spring
Of forty seven
So the story it is told
Old John Sutter
Went to the mill site
Found a piece
Of shining gold
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
Well they came
Like herds of locusts
Every woman child and man
In their lumbering conestogas
Left their tracks
Upon the land
Some would fail
And some would prosper
Some would die
And some would kill
Some would thank
The lord for their deliverance
Some would curse
John Sutter's mill
Well they came
From New York city
And they came
From Alabam
With their dreams
Of finding fortunes
In this wild
Unsettled land
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
Oh some would fail
And some would prosper
Some would die
And some would kill
Some would thank
The lord for their deliverance
Some would curse
John Sutter's mill
Some pushed on to California
Others stopped to take their rest
By the spring of eighteen sixty
They had opened up the west
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
Oh some would fail
And some would prosper
Some would die
And some would kill
Some would thank
The lord for their deliverance
Some would curse
John Sutter's mill
Some would curse
John Sutter's mill
Some men's thirsts
Are never filled