[00:00.00] 作词 : Fogelberg[00:01.00] 作曲 : Dan Fogelberg[00:30.89]In the spring of forty-seven,[00:37.64]So the story, it is told,[00:44.89]Old john sutter went to the mill site[00:52.19]Found a piece of shining gold.[00:59.23]Well, he took it to the city[01:06.44]Where the word, like wildfire, spread.[01:13.36]And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd[01:20.41]Left that stone in the river bed.[01:27.79]For they came like herds of locusts[01:35.11]Every woman, child and man[01:42.27]In their lumbering conestogas[01:49.20]They left their tracks upon the land.[01:55.01](chorus)[01:55.60]Some would fail and some would prosper[02:03.30]Some would die and some would kill[02:10.76]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance[02:17.79]And some would curse john sutter's mill.[02:25.34]Well, they came from new york city,[02:32.18]And they came from alabam'[02:39.29]With their dreams of finding fortunes[02:46.63]In this wild unsettled land.[02:53.72]Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows[03:01.14]As they tried to cross the plains.[03:07.98]And some were lost in the rocky mountains[03:15.14]With their hands froze to the reins.[03:21.01]Oh...[03:22.99](chorus)[03:23.00]Some would fail and some would prosper[03:29.80]Some would die and some would kill[03:37.26]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance[03:44.39]And some would curse john sutter's mill.[03:51.90](music)[04:11.36][04:19.29]Well, some pushed on to california[04:27.09]And others stopped to take their rest.[04:34.05]And by the spring of eighteen-sixty[04:41.12]They had opened up the west.[04:48.13]And then the railroad came behind them[04:55.30]And the land was plowed and tamed,[05:02.22]When old john sutter went to meet his maker,[05:09.68]He'd not one penny to his name.[05:15.93]Oh...[05:16.76](chorus)[05:17.25]Some would fail and some would prosper[05:24.23]Some would die and some would kill[05:31.35]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance[05:38.44]And some would curse john sutter's mill.[05:45.22]And some would curse john sutter's mill[05:52.39]Some men's thirsts are never filled.