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[00:00.00] 作词 : Fogelberg
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Dan Fogelberg
[00:30.89]In the spring of forty-seven, (那是1847年的春天)
[00:37.64]So the story, it is told, (故事便从那时开始)
[00:44.89]Old john sutter went to the mill site (老约翰.萨特在磨坊外)
[00:52.19]Found a piece of shining gold. (捡到了一块金子)
[00:59.23]Well, he took it to the city (于是他带着它去了城里)
[01:06.44]Where the word, like wildfire, spread. (在那里关于金矿的消息 ，如野火般蔓延开来)
[01:13.36]And old john sutter soon came to wish he'd (老萨特很快开始后悔)
[01:20.41]Left that stone in the river bed. (为什么不把那块石头留在河床上)
[01:27.79]For they came like herds of locusts (人们如同成群的蝗虫聚集)
[01:35.11]Every woman, child and man (男人、女人和孩子们)
[01:42.27]In their lumbering conestogas (在大篷车笨重的前行中)
[01:49.20]They left their tracks upon the land. (将车辙留在原野上)
[01:55.01](chorus)
[01:55.60]Some would fail and some would prosper (有人无功而返 ，有人得偿所愿)
[02:03.30]Some would die and some would kill (有人长眠异乡 ，有人图财害命)
[02:10.76]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance (有人将感激上帝解脱了他们)
[02:17.79]And some would curse john sutter's mill. (有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房)
[02:25.34]Well, they came from new york city, (他们有的来自纽约)
[02:32.18]And they came from alabam' (有的来自阿拉巴马)
[02:39.29]With their dreams of finding fortunes (他们做着发财梦)
[02:46.63]In this wild unsettled land. (来到这片荒蛮的土地)
[02:53.72]Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows (一些人命丧箭下)
[03:01.14]As they tried to cross the plains. (在他们试图穿越平原时)
[03:07.98]And some were lost in the rocky mountains (一些人消失在落基山脉)
[03:15.14]With their hands froze to the reins. (身体冻僵而死)
[03:21.01]Oh... (噢)
[03:22.99](chorus)
[03:23.00]Some would fail and some would prosper (有人无功而返 ，有人得偿所愿)
[03:29.80]Some would die and some would kill (有人长眠异乡 ，有人图财害命)
[03:37.26]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance (有人将感激上帝解脱了他们)
[03:44.39]And some would curse john sutter's mill. (有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房)
[03:51.90](music)
[04:11.36]
[04:19.29]Well, some pushed on to california (一些人执著前行奔向加州)
[04:27.09]And others stopped to take their rest. (一些人驻足不前休养生息)
[04:34.05]And by the spring of eighteen-sixty (在1860年的春天)
[04:41.12]They had opened up the west. (他们终于征服了西部)
[04:48.13]And then the railroad came behind them (铁路紧随其后，铺往西部)
[04:55.30]And the land was plowed and tamed, (这片土地终于被开发和征服)
[05:02.22]When old john sutter went to meet his maker, (然而当约翰萨特离开人世时)
[05:09.68]He'd not one penny to his name. (自己却一文不名)
[05:15.93]Oh... (噢)
[05:16.76](chorus)
[05:17.25]Some would fail and some would prosper (有人无功而返 ，有人得偿所愿)
[05:24.23]Some would die and some would kill (有人长眠异乡 ，有人图财害命)
[05:31.35]Some would thank the lord for their deliverance (有人将感激上帝解脱了他们)
[05:38.44]And some would curse john sutter's mill. (有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房)
[05:45.22]And some would curse john sutter's mill (有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房)
[05:52.39]Some men's thirsts are never filled. (有人的欲望却永远无法满足)