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Sutter's Mill

from Immigrant Songs by Wolf Loescher

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When I first started collecting songs for this album, our very good friend Alison (with one “L”) Madson suggested this one. I have a personal connection to the California Gold Rush, since my anscestors on my mother’s side – Robert Lawlor – came from County Laois in Ireland to Chicago to escape The Famine, and then moved on to Sacramento to find his fortune. I refer to him affectionately as “Stumpy Bob”, because according to family history his left leg was one inch shorter than the his right.

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In the Spring of Forty-seven
So the story it is told
Old John Sutter went to the mill site
Found a piece of shining gold

Well, he took it to the city
Where the word like wildfire spread
And old John Sutter soon came to wish he’d
Left that stone in the river bed

For they came like hordes of locusts
Every woman, child and man
In their lumbering Conestogas
They left their tracks upon the land

Chorus
Some would fail and some would prosper
Some would die and some would kill
Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
And some would curse John Sutter’s Mill

Well, they came from New York City
And they came from Alabam’
With their dreams of finding fortunes
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 rein

Well, some pushed on to California
And 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
He’d not one penny to his name

credits

from Immigrant Songs, released September 29, 2023
Words and Music by Dan Fogelberg
© EMI April Music Inc.

WL – Lead Vocals, Baritone Ukulele, Percussion
BP – Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals
FC – Mandolin, Harmony Vocals

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Wolf Loescher Longmont, Colorado

Wolf Loescher is a singer / storyteller based in Longmont, Colorado. He sings songs and tells stories from the Old World and the New, accompanying himself on his custom 8-string Irish bouzouki, tenor guitar, bodhran, and foot percussion. He is often joined by fabulous musicians from around the country in his backing band “The Growlers.” ... more

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