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Sutter's Mill easy guitar chords by
Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelberg

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Intro 1
D
Bm
G
D
Bm
G
D

Bm
G
D
A
Bm
Em

A
D

Verse 1
Bm
G
D

In the Spring of Forty- seven,
A
D
Bm
G
D

So the story, it is told,
Bm
G

Old John Sutter went to the
D
A
Bm

mill site
Em
A
D

Found a piece of shining gold.
Verse 2
Bm
G
D

Well, he took it to the city
Bm
G
D

Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
Bm
G

And old John Sutter soon came
D
A
Bm

to wish he'd
Em
A

Left that stone in the river bed.
Bm
Verse 3

G
D

For they came like herds of locusts
G
D
Bm

Every woman, child and man
G
D
A
Bm

In their lumbering Conestogas
Em
A

They left their tracks
Bm

upon the land.
Verse 4
G

[Chorus] Some would

fail and some
D

would prosper
G
D

Some would die
A
D
Bm

and some would kill
G

Some would thank the Lord
A
D

for their deliverance
A
Bm
Em

And some would curse
A

John Sutter's Mill.
D
Verse 5

A
Bm
G
D

Well, they came from New York City,
Bm
G
D

And they came from Alabam'
Bm
G

With their dream s of
D
Bm

finding fortunes
Em
A

In this wild unsettled land.
D
Verse 6

Bm
G
A
D

Well, some fell prey to hostile arrows
A
Bm
G

As they tried to cross
D

the plains.
Bm
G

And some were lost in the
D
A
Bm

Rocky Mountain s
Em
A

With their hands froze
Bm
G
D

to the reins.
G

Oh...
D
Bm

Verse 7
G

[Chorus]
D
A
Bm
Em
A
D
A
Bm

Well,
G
D
A
Bm
G
D
A
Bm

G
D
A
Bm
Em
A
D
A

some pushed
Bm
G
D

on to California
Bm
G
D

And others stopped to take their rest.
Bm
G

And by the Spring of
D
Bm

Eighteen- sixty
Em
A

They had opened up the west.
D
Verse 8
Bm

And then the railroad
G
D

came behind them
Bm
G

And the land was
D

plowed and tamed,
Bm
G

When Old John Sutter went
D
Bm

to meet his maker,
Em
A

He'd not one penny to
Bm
A
G
D

his name.
G

Oh...
D
Bm

Verse 9
G

[Chorus]
D
Bm
Em
A
D
Bm

And some would
Em
A
D
A
Bm

curse John Sutter's Mill
Em
A
D

Some men's thirsts are never filled.
Outro 1
D
Bm
G

D
Bm
G
D
Bm

G
D
Bm
Em
A
Bm
A

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