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SUTTER'S MILL - Dan Fogelberg - "High Country Snows" Full Moon/Epic 1985

capo 3rd or 4th fret to taste

Odd chords: C/B x22010 or x20010
	    Dm7 x00211
	    Em7/A 000000 (tough!)

C   C/B  Am   F          C       
In  the  spring of forty-seven

   C/B  Am  F        C     
So the  sto-ry it is told

    C/B  Am   F              C        Am     
Old John Sutter  went to the millside

        Dm7  G           C
Found a piece of shinin' gold.

      C/B  Am     F       C
Well, he   took it to the city

      C/B Am  F              C
Where the word like wildfire spread

    C/B  Am    F             C       Am
Old John Sutter soon came to wishin'

               Dm7  G             Am           
He'd left that stone in the river bed.
 
        F                  C   
Oh, they came like herds of locusts

       F  C             Am
Every wo-man, child and man

         F               C          Am  
In their lumberin' cone- stogas 

                Dm7  G         Am
They left their track upon the land.

CHORUS
           F                   C
Some would fail and some would prosper

           F C                Am
Some would die and some would kill

           F                           C         Am
Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance 

           Dm7  G                C
Some would curse   John Sutter's Mill.

Well, they came from New York City
And they came from Alabam'
With their dreams of finding fortune
In this wild unsettled land.

Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
As they tried to cross the plains
And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
With their hands froze to the reins.

CHORUS

Some pushed on to California
Others stopped to take their rest
And by the spring of eighteen sixty
They had opened up the west.

And then the railroad came behind them
And the land was plowed and tamed
When old John Sutter went to meet his Maker
With not one penny to his name.

CHORUS
last line of chorus:
           Dm7  G              C   C/B   Am       
Some would curse John Sutter's Mill 

repeat, then:
           Dm7  G            Am      Em7/A   Am
Some men's thirsts are never filled.