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你印象中的美国乡村民谣恐怕来自Take Me Home Country Road吧?
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. X7 I' a0 X5 x, E5 @' K/ dwww.86trader.com你应该听听Sutter's Mill.
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7 p, ^8 B! P5 z2 h你肯定知道美国淘金热.却不一定知道淘金热和Sutter's Mill有什么关系.
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甚至你不用去管是不是真有Sutter's Mill这个人物和事件.
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- ?4 n6 p! p0 C8 z& s你只需要听着歌觉得好玩就好了.
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原来在歌里,淘金热是由一个John Sutter的倒霉磨房主捡到一块金子引起的.
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倒霉的John Sutter打心里发誓,当初真该把这该死的金子扔回河床去.
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因为他的生活,被四面八方来淘金的人搞得一塌糊涂.
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9 o5 p1 p0 L+ p: j$ p, M# x/ u* O& c6 Dwww.86trader.comIn the Spring of Forty-seven,
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So the story, it is told,
0 E" G3 P- f h8 l1 nOld John Sutter went to the mill site
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. V& c% s( C4 U( O" d+ R, N1 @Well, he took it to the city
2 H" b0 @9 Z: M3 X; y中国外贸人论坛Where the word, like wildfire, spread.
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And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd
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Left that stone in the river bed.
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For they came like herds of locusts
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In their lumbering Conestogas
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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 thank the Lord for their deliverance
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And some would curse John Sutter's Mill.
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1 ?* f& V! e. L' O6 ` W3 C0 yWell, some fell prey to hostile arrows
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As they tried to cross the plains.
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And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
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With their hands froze to the reins.
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Oh...
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* b5 n; L t7 q2 G' e& w中国外贸人论坛Well, some pushed on to California
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And others stopped to take their rest.
: C" J& I4 X& U, w# Y: DAnd by the Spring of Eighteen-sixty
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They had opened up the west.
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# G5 G7 `7 q$ RAnd then the railroad came behind them
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And the land was plowed and tamed,
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When Old John Sutter went to meet his maker,
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Oh...
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(Chorus)
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. V9 L1 }" T* U" a9 o$ uAnd some would curse John Sutter's Mill
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Some men's thirsts are never filled.
