เพลง : Sutter'S Mill
ศิลปิน : Dan Fogelberg

In the spring
of forty seven
so the story it is told
old john sutter
went to the mill site
and found a piece
of shinning gold
Well be took it
to the city
Where the word
like wild fire spread
old john sutter
soon came too wish he'd
Left that stone
in the river bed
for they came
like herds of locusts
Every wo wo men child and men
ln their lumbering conestogas
They left their tracks
up on the land
Some would fail
and some would prosper
Some would die
and some would kill
Some would thank the lord
For their deliverance
some would curse
John sutter's mill
Well they came from
New York city
And they come from Alabama
With their dreams
to find their fortunes
in this wild unsettled
Well some fell prey
to hostille arrows
As they tried
to cross the plains
and some were lost
in the rocky mountains
With their hands
froze to the reins
Some would fail
and some would prosper
Some would die
and some would kill
Some would thank the lord
For their deliverance
some would curse
John sutter's mill

Well some pushed
on to California
And others stopped
to take their rest
and by the spring
in eighteen sixty
They had opened up the West
And then the railroad
came behind them
And the land
was plowed and tamed
When old John sutter
Went to meet his maker
He'd not one penny
to his name
Some would fail
and some would prosper
Some would die
and some would kill
Some would thank the lord
For their deliverance
some would curse
John sutter's mill
Some would curse
John Sutter's mill
Some men's thirst
are never filled