Sutter's Mill Lyrics - High Country Snows/exiles - 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, like 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. 

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(Chorus) 

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... 

(Chorus) 

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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 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. 

Oh... 

(Chorus) 

And some would curse John Sutter's Mill 

Some men's thirsts are never filled.