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

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