in the spring of forty seven
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so the story it is told
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old john sutter when to the millside
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found a piece of shining gold
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well he took it
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to the city
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where the word like wildfire spread
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old john sutter soon came to wishy
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left that stone in the river bed
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for they came like heard the locust
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every woman child and man
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in their lumbering corner stogus
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they left their tracks upon the land
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some would fail and some would prosper
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some would die and some would kill
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some would thank the lord for their deliverance
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some would curse john sutter's men
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well they came
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from new york city
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and they came
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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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well some fell prey
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to hostile arrow
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as they tried to cross the plain
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some were lost in the rocky mountains
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with their hands froze to the rain
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oh some would fail and some would prosper
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some would die and some would kill
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some would thank the lord for their deliverance
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some would curse john sutter's men
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well some bush down
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to california
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another stop to take the rest
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by the spring
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of eighteen sixty
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they had
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opened up the west
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and when the railroad came behind it
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and the land was cloud and tang
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when old john sutter went to meet his maker
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not one penny to his name
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oh some would fail and some would prosper
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some would
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die and some would kill
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some would thank the lord
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but their deliverance
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some would curse john sutter's milk
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some would curse john satters nill
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some men's thirst or never fill
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