Dan Fogelberg - Sutter's Mill
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CAPO: 3rd Fret
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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
CHORUS:
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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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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
CHORUS:
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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
CHORUS:
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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
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