[00:36.89]In the spring of forty-seven,[00:43.89]So the story, it is told,[00:51.08]Old john sutter went to the mill site[00:58.24]Found a piece of shining gold.[01:05.17]Well, he took it to the city[01:12.45]Where the word, like wildfire, spread.[01:19.43]And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd[01:26.67]Left that stone in the river bed.[01:33.83]For they came like herds of locusts[01:40.91]Every woman, child and man[01:48.32]In their lumbering conestogas[01:55.34]They left their tracks upon the land.[02:02.59]Some would fail and some would prosper[02:09.81]Some would die and some would kill[02:17.11]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance[02:24.43]And some would curse john sutter's mill.[02:31.91]Well, they came from new york city,[02:38.99]And they came from alabam'[02:46.80]With their dreams of finding fortunes[02:53.29]In this wild unsettled land.[03:00.62]Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows[03:08.04]As they tried to cross the plains.[03:16.01]And some were lost in the rocky mountains[03:23.15]With their hands froze to the reins.[03:29.43]Some would fail and some would prosper[03:37.25]Some would die and some would kill[03:44.23]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance[03:51.57]And some would curse john sutter's mill.[04:30.40]Well, some pushed on to california[04:36.75]And others stopped to take their rest.[04:43.91]And by the spring of eighteen-sixty[04:50.58]They had opened up the west.[04:58.53]And then the railroad came behind them[05:06.26]And the land was plowed and tamed,[05:12.79]When old john sutter went to meet his maker,[05:21.00]He'd not one penny to his name.[05:27.31]Some would fail and some would prosper[05:34.85]Some would die and some would kill[05:41.96]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance[05:49.26]And some would curse john sutter's mill.[05:56.48]And some would curse john sutter's mill[06:04.19]Some men's thirsts are never filled.[06:11.52]END