Sutter's Mill

Dan Fogelberg

专辑:High Country Snows

发行日期:1985-06-05

时长:06:31

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歌词

  • In the spring of 47
  • 故事的发生
  • So the story it is told
  • 要从1847年的春天说起
  • Old John Sutter went to the mill site
  • 老约翰.萨特在磨坊外
  • Found a piece of shinin' gold
  • 拾到一块金子
  • Well he took it to the city
  • 于是带着它去了城里
  • Where the word like wildfire spread
  • 在那里关于金矿的消息,如野火蔓延开来
  • And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd
  • 萨特很快就后悔
  • Left that stone in the river bed
  • 该把那块石头留在河床上
  • For they came like herds of locusts
  • 人们集聚如蝗
  • Every woman child and man
  • 男人、女人和孩子们
  • In their lumberin' Conestogas
  • 在大篷车笨重的前行中
  • They left their tracks upon the land
  • 将车辙留在原野上
  • Some would fail and some would prosper
  • 有人无功而返,有人心遂所愿
  • Some would die and some would kill
  • 有人长眠异乡,有人图财害命
  • Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
  • 有人将感激上帝解脱了他们
  • And some would curse John Sutter's Mill
  • 有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房
  • Well they came from New York City
  • 他们有的来自纽约城
  • And they came from Alabama
  • 有的来自阿拉巴马州
  • With their dreams of findin' fortunes
  • 带着他们的发财梦
  • In this wild unsettled land
  • 来到这荒蛮的土地上
  • Well some fell prey to hostile arrows
  • 一些人在穿越平原时
  • As they tried to cross the plains
  • 命丧箭下
  • And some were lost in the Rocky Mountains
  • 一些人失踪在洛基山脉
  • With their hands froze to the reins
  • 冻饿而亡
  • Oh some would fail and some would prosper
  • 噢,有人无功而返,有人心遂所愿
  • Some would die and some would kill
  • 有人长眠异乡,有人图财害命
  • Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
  • 有人将感激上帝解脱了他们
  • And some would curse John Sutter's Mill
  • 有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房
  • Well some pushed on to California
  • 一些人执著前行去往加州
  • And others stopped to take their rest
  • 一些人驻足不往休养生息
  • And by the Spring of 1860
  • 1860年时
  • They had opened up the West
  • 他们开发了西部
  • And then the railroad came behind them
  • 铁路随后而至
  • And the land was plowed and tamed
  • 荒原终被开发和征服
  • When old John Sutter went to meet his maker
  • 当约翰萨特离开人世
  • He'd not one penny to his name
  • 自己却一文不名
  • Oh some would fail and some would prosper
  • 有人无功而返,有人心遂所愿
  • Some would die and some would kill
  • 有人长眠异乡,有人图财害命
  • Some would thank the Lord for their deliverance
  • 有人将感激上帝解脱了他们
  • And some would curse John Sutter's Mill
  • 有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房
  • And some would curse John Sutter's Mill
  • 有人会诅咒约翰萨特的磨房
  • Some men's thirsts are never filled
  • 有人的欲望却永远无法满足

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