Artist: | Floyd Brotherson (English) |
User: | Mark Brotherson |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
Abusive: | |
Comment: | - |
Original by Lefty Frizzell
Intro
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I was born in Saginaw, Michigan
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I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay
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My daddy was a poor, hard-working fisherman
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Too many times he came home too little pay
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I loved a girl
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In Saginaw, Michigan
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She was 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 daughter's 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
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I wrote my love
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In Saginaw, Michigan
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I said honey I'm coming home please wait for me
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And you can tell your dad I'm coming home a richer man
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I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history
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Her dad met me
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In Saginaw, Michigan
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He gave me a great big party with champagne
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Then he said son you wise young ambitious man
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Wont you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim?
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Now he's up there in Alaska digging in the cold, cold ground
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The greedy fool is searching for the gold I never found
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It serves him right and no one here is missing him
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Least of all the newlyweds of Saginaw, Michigan
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We're the happiest man and wife in Saginaw, Michigan