🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Sutter's Mill - Dan Fogelberg

 In the Spring of 
  the story, it is told,
  John Sutter went to the mill site
 Found a piece of  gold.
 
 Well, he took  to the city
 Where the word, like  spread.
 And  John Sutter soon came to wish he'd
 Left that stone in the river 
 
 For they came like  of locusts
 Every  child and man
  their lumbering Conestogas
 They left their tracks upon  land.
 
 Some would  and some would prosper
 Some would  and some would kill
 Some would thank  Lord for their deliverance
 And some would curse John Sutter's 
 
 Well, they came from  York City,
 And  came from Alabam'
 With their dreams of finding 
 In this wild  land.
 
 Well, some fell  to hostile arrows
 As they tried to  the plains.
 And  were lost in the Rocky Mountains
 With their hands froze to  reins.
 
 Some would fail and some  prosper
 Some would die and some would 
 Some would  the Lord for their deliverance
 And some  curse John Sutter's Mill.
 
 Well, some pushed on  California
 And others stopped to take their 
 And by the  of Eighteen-sixty
 They had opened up the 
 
 And then the railroad came behind 
 And  land was plowed and tamed,
  Old John Sutter went to meet his maker,
  not one penny to his name.
 
 Some would fail and some  prosper
  would die and some would kill
 Some would thank the Lord  their deliverance
 And some would curse John Sutter's 
 
 And some would curse  Sutter's Mill
 Some men's thirsts are never