Sutters Mill

Dan Fogelberg - Sutter’s Mill (## NOTE: ~ = walk down from C to Am ##) CAPO: 3rd Fret INTRO:    ~ 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 Old John Sutter soon came to wishing    He’d left that stone in the river bed Oh they came like herds of locusts Every woman child and man In their lumbering Conestogas     They left their track upon the land CHORUS: Some would fail and some would prosper Some would die and some would kill Some would beg the Lord for their deliverance     Some would curse John Sutter’s Mill Well they came from New York City And they came from Alabam’ With their dream of finding fortune     In this wild unsettled land Well some fell prey to hostile arrows As they tried to cross the land And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains     With their hands froze to the reins CHORUS: Some would fail and some would prosper Some would die and some would kill Some would beg the Lord for their deliverance     Some would curse John Sutter’s Mill INSTRUMENTAL:    ~ Some pushed on to California 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 ploughed and tamed When old John Sutter went to meet his maker     With not one penny to his name CHORUS: Some would fail and some would prosper Some would die and some would kill Some would beg the Lord for their deliverance     Some would curse John Sutter’s Mill Some would curse John Sutter’s Mill    Some men’s thirsts are never filled OUTRO:    ~