Karaoke Track: Sutter's Mill by Dan Fogelberg (Dream Catcher)

So the story, it is told,
Old John Sutter went to the mill site

Found a piece of shining gold.

Old John Sutter went to the mill site

Found a piece of shining gold.

Found a piece of shining gold.

Well, he took it to the city
Where the word, like wildfire, spread.

An ol&#39; John Sutter soon came to wish

he&#39;d, left that stone in the river bed.

Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
An ol&#39; John Sutter soon came to wish

he&#39;d, left that stone in the river bed.

An ol&#39; John Sutter soon came to wish

he&#39;d, left that stone in the river bed.

he&#39;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.

Every woman child and man

In their lumbering Conestogas

They left their tracks upon the land.

In their lumbering Conestogas

They left their tracks upon the land.

They left their tracks upon the land.

Some would fail

and some would prosper

Some would die

and some would kill

Some would die

and some would kill

Some would thank the

Lord for their deliverance

And some would curse

John Sutter&#39;s Mill.

And some would curse

John Sutter&#39;s Mill.

Well, they came from New York City,
And they came from Alabam&#39;
With their dreams of finding fortunes

In this wild unsettled land.

And they came from Alabam&#39;

With their dreams offmding fortunes

In this wild unsettled land.

With their dreams offmding fortunes

In this wild unsettled land.

In this wild unsettled land.

Well, some fell prey

to hostile arrows
As they tried

to cross the plains.

As they tried

to cross the plains.

And some were lost

in the Rocky Mountains

With their hands

froze to the reins.

With their hands

froze to the reins.

And some would curse

John Sutter&#39;s Mill.

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Well, some pushed on to California
And others stopped to take their rest.

And by the Spring of Eighteen sixty
They had opened up the west.

And others stopped to take their rest.
And by the Spring of Eighteen sixty
They had opened up the west.

And by the Spring of Eighteen sixty

They had opened up the west.

They had opened up the west.

And then the railroad
came behind them
And the land

was plowed and tamed,

And the land

was plowed and tamed,

He&#39;d not one penny

to his name.

Oh, Some would fail

and some would prosper

Some would die

and some would kill

Some would die

and some would kill

Some would thank the

Lord for their deliverance

And some would curse

John Sutter&#39;s Mill.

And some would curse

John Sutter&#39;s Mill.

Some would curse

John Sutter&#39;s Mill

Some men&#39;s thirsts

are never filled.

Some men&#39;s thirsts

are never filled.

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