Bill Anderson - Saginaw Michigan lyrics

I was born in Saginaw, Michigan

I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay

My daddy was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman

Too many nights he came home with too little pay.

I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan

The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man

But he called me that son of a Saginaw fisherman

And he said I wasn't good enough to claim his daughter's hand.

That's why I'm up here in Alaska lookin' around for gold

Like a crazy fool I'm diggin' in the frozen ground so cold

But with each new day I pray I'll strike it rich and then

I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan.

I wrote my love in Saginaw, Michigan

I said honey, I'm comin' home please wait for me

You can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man

I've hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history.

Her daddy met the bus in Saginaw, Michigan

He gave me a great big party and we drank champagne

Then he said son you're a wise, young, ambitious man

Don'tcha wanna sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim.

And now he's up there in Alaska diggin' in the cold, cold ground

The greedy fool is a 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.

We're the happiest man and wife in Saginaw, Michigan

And he's ashamed to show his face in Saginaw, Michigan...