应该是Dan Fogelberg唱的Sutter's Mill，歌曲讲的是美国西部淘金史。对照歌词看一下。

　　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 herds 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 reins.

　　Oh...(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, 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.

　　Oh...(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.

　　And some would curse john sutter's mill

　　Some men's thirsts are never filled.