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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the
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So the story it is told,
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Old John Sutter went
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to the mills out
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An d found a piece
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of shining gold
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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
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came to wishin'
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He'd left that stone in
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the river bed
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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 casto gas
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They left their tracks
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upon the land
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Some would fail and some
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Some would die an d 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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John Sutter's mill
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Well, they came from
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New York City
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And they came from Alabama
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With their dreams of finding fortunes
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In this wild, unsettled land
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Some fell prey to hostile arrows
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As they tried to cross the plains
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And some were lost in
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the rocky mountains
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With their hands,
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froze to the rains
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Oh, some would fail and
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some would prosper
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Some would die an d some would kill
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Some would thank the Lord
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for their deliverance
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An d some would curse John Sutter's name
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Well, some pushed
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on to Califor nia
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And others stopped to take their rest
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And by the spring of 1860
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they had opened up the West
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And then the railroad came
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behind them
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And the land was plowed and tamed
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When old John Sutter
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went to meet his maker
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With not one penny to his name
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Oh, some would fail and
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some would prosper
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Some would die an d some would kill
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Some would thank the Lord
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for their de liverance,
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And some would curse John
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Sutter's mill.
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Some would curse John
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Sut ter's milk
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Some men's thirsts are nev
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er filled
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To All Around The World
Outro 1
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