Saginaw, Michigan

I was born in Saginaw, Michigan

I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay

My dad 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 said I wasn't good enough for his daughter's hand.

That's why I went up here to Alaska searchin' around for gold

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

But with each new day I pray I'd 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

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

I've hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history."

So her dad met me in Saginaw, Michigan

He gave me a great big party and we served champagne

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

Now won't you sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim?"

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

Why the greedy fool is lookin' for the gold I never found

It serves him right and no one here is a missin' him

Least of all the newly weds of Saginaw, Michigan.

Least of all us newly weds of Saginaw, Michigan.

(Saginaw, Michigan...)