Tonalità: B minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the spring of 47,
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so the story it is told
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Old John Sutter went
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to the mill site
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Found a piece 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
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soon came to wish he
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Left that stone in the river bay
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For they came like herds of locusts
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Every long child and mare
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In their lumbering conestogas
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They left their trash upon the land
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Some would fail and some
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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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Some would curse John Sutter's bill
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Well they came from New York City
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And they came from Alabama
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With their dreams I find a fortune
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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 plain
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And some were lost in the
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Rocky Mountains
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With their heads
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Closed to the rain
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Some would fail
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Some would prosper
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Some would die
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And some would kill
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The Lord for their deliverance
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Some would curse John Sutter's will
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Some pushed on to
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California
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And by the spring of 1860,
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they had opene d up the way.
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And then the railroad
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came behind them,
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And the land was plowed and tamed
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But old John Sutter went
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to meet his maker
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He not one penny to his name
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Some would fail and some
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would prosper
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Some would die and some would kill
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Some would thank the Lord
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for their deliverance
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Some would curse
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John Sutter's bill
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Some men's thirst,
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are never filled.
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