Johnny Cash
Album: Personal File - Disc 1 (Legacy Recordings)
Track: Saginaw, Michigan
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Saginaw, Michigan Lyrics (Bill Anderson, Don Wayne)
'I was born in Saginaw, 'Michigan
And I grew 'up in a 'house on Saginaw Bay
My Daddy was a 'poor hard working Saginaw 'fisherman
Too many 'times he came home with too little 'pay
'I 'loved a girl in Saginaw, 'Michigan
She was the 'daughter of a 'very very wealthy man
But he called me, 'that son of a Saginaw 'fisherman
Not good 'enough to ever claim his daughter's 'hand
That's why I'm 'up here in Alaska, 'looking around for gold
Like a crazy fool, I'm digging in the 'frozen ground, so cold
But with 'each 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, I Honey, I'm coming home, please wait for me
And you can tell your Dad that I'm coming back a richer man
I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history
Her daddy met the boss in Saginaw, Michigan
And he gave me a great big party with champagne
Then he said, son, you're a wise young ambitious man
Why don't you sell you're father in law your Klondike claim
Now he's up there in Alaska, digging in the cold cold ground
That greedy fool is lookin' for the gold, I never found
But it serves him right and nobody here is missing him
Least of all, the newly weds of Saginaw, Michigan
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