经典民谣 非常好听 Fogelberg-back 《Sutter's Mill》









Sutter's Mill (萨特的磨坊)
歌手：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,
ike 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.
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 some were lost
in the Rocky mountains
With their hands
froze to the reins.
Oh... 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.