Saginaw, Michigan
By Lefty Frizzell
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I was born, in Saginaw Michigan, 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, 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 claim his daughters hand
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Now I'm up here in Alaska, looking around for gold
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Like a crazy fool I'm digging in this 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
I wrote my love, in Saginaw, Michigan
I said "Honey I'm coming home please wait for me
You can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man
I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history"
Her dad met me in Saginaw, Michigan
He gave me a great big party with champagne
Then he said, "Son, you're a wise young ambitious man
Will you sell you're father-in-law your Klondike claim"?
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Now he's up there in Alaska, digging in the cold cold ground
The greedy fool is lookin' for the gold I never found
It serves him right and no one here is missing him
Least of all the newly weds of Saginaw, Michigan
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