Johnny Cash Saginaw, Michigan Lyrics

Saginaw, Michigan Lyrics

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 wealthy, wealthy man

But he called me, "That son of a Saginaw fisherman"

And 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 a digging 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 a coming home, please wait for me

And you can tell your dad that I'm coming back a richer man

I've hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history"



Her dad met the bus in Saginaw, Michigan

And he gave me a great big party with champagne

Then he said, "Son, you're wise, young ambitious man

Why don't you sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim?"



Now he's up there in Alaska digging in the cold, cold ground

That greedy fool is a looking 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