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Sutters Mill 萨特的磨坊歌词
Sutter s Mill   Dan Fogelberg   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.   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.   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 so