Dan Fogelberg – Sutters Mill (Guitar)

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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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Old John Sutter soon came to wishing 

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He'd left that stone in the river bed

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Oh, 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 track upon the land

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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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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 dream of finding fortune 

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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 land

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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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Some would fail and some would prosper

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Some would die and some would kill

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Some would beg the Lord for their deliverance 

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Some would curse John Sutter's Mill

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Some pushed on  to California

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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 ploughed and tamed

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When old John Sutter went to meet his maker 

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With not one penny to his name

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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 beg the Lord for their deliverance 

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Some would curse John Sutter's Mill

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Some would curse John Sutter's Mill

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Some men's thirsts are never filled