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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the Spring of Forty- seven,
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So the story, it is told,
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Old John Sutter went to the
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mill site
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Found a piece of shining gold.
Verse 2
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Well, he took it to the city
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Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
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And old John Sutter soon came
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to wish he'd
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Left that stone in the river bed.
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Verse 3
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For they came like herds of locusts
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Every woman, child and man
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In their lumbering Conestogas
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They left their tracks
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fail and some
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Some would die
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and some would kill
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Some would thank the Lord
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for their deliverance
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And some would curse
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Verse 5
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Well, they came from New York City,
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And they came from Alabam'
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With their dreams of
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finding fortunes
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In this wild unsettled land.
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Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
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As they tried to cross
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And some were lost in the
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Rocky Mountains
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With their hands froze
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to the reins.
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Oh...
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Verse 7
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[Chorus]
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Well,
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some pushed
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on to California
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And others stopped to take their rest.
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And by the Spring of
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Eighteen- six ty
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They had opened up the west.
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And then the railroad
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came behind them
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And the land was
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When Old John Sutter went
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to meet his maker,
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He'd not one penny to
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his name.
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Oh...
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Verse 9
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[Chorus]
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And some would
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curse John Sutter's Mill
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Some men's thirsts are never filled.
Outro 1
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