SAGINAW MICHIGAN
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I was born in Saginaw, Michigan
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And I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay
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My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman
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Too many times he came home with too little pay
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I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan
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The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man
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But he called me, "That son of a Saginaw fisherman"
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Not good enough to ever claim his daughter's hand
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That's why I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold
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Like a crazy fool I'm a digging in the frozen ground, so cold
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But with each new day I pray I'll strike it rich and then
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I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan

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I wrote my love in Saginaw, Michigan
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I said, "Honey, I'm a coming home, please wait for me
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You can tell your dad that I'm coming back a richer man
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I've hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history"
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Her dad met the bus in Saginaw, Michigan
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He gave me a great big party with champagne
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Then he said, "Son, you're wise, young ambitious man
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Why don't you sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim?"

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Now he's up there in Alaska digging in the cold, cold ground
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That greedy fool is a looking for the gold I never found
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But it serves him right and nobody here is missing him
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Least of all the newly-weds of Saginaw, Michigan