Sutter’s Mill (midi)
1. 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 shinin' gold.
2. 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 wishin' ,
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he'd left that stone
in the river bed.
3. Well, they came
like herds of locusts,
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every woman, child and man
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In their lumberin' connestogas,
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they left their tracks upon the land.
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.
4. Well, they came from New York City,
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and they came from Alabam',
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with their dreams to find a fortune
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in this wild unsettled land.
5. Some fell prey to hostile arrows,
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as they
tried to cross the plains.
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Some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
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with their
hands froze to the reins. +
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6. 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.
7. 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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and not one penny to his name.
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some would curse John Sutter's Mill,
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Some men's
thirsts are never filled.