Sutters Mill Chords

Key: originally E, here C (capo 4th fret)
 
[Verse]
C      Am     F        C
In the spring of forty-seven
      Am     F         C
So the story it is told
         Am     F       C        C     Am
Old John Sutter went to the Mill site
        Dm7   G7             C
Found a piece of shinin' gold
 
         Am      F      C
Well, he took it to the city
          Am   F             C
Where the word like wildfire spread
         Am     F            C        Am
Old John Sutter soon came to wishin'
               Dm7   G7  Am7
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' connestogas
                Dm7       G7        Am
They left their track upon the land
 
[Refrain]
           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   G7            C
Some would curse John Sutter's Mill
 
[Verse]
           Am  F              C
Well, they came from New York City
         Am  F         C
And they came from Alabam'
           Am   F            C        Am
With their dreams of findin' fortune
        Dm7     G7     C
In this wild unsettled land
 
                Am   F          C
Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
        Am    F            C
As they tried to cross the land
              Am   F            C          Am
And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
           Dm7   G7           Am
With their hands froze to the reins
 
[Refrain]
           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   G7            C
Some would curse John Sutter's Mill
 
(Instrumental)
 
(Missing Verse)
 
[Refrain]
           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   G7            C
Some would curse John Sutter's Mill
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