Date: 4/27/97; 11:03:22 AM
From: Graham Reid <"rebel@interlinks.net"@huey.interlinks.net>
Subject: Saginaw, Michigan, Recorded by Lefty Frizzell

SAGINAW, MICHIGAN

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I was born,  in Saginaw Michigan, I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay,
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My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman,
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Too many times he came home with too little pay.
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I love a girl, in Saginaw Michigan, the daughter of a wealthly wealthly
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 daughters hand.

Chorus
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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.
  
I wrote my love, in Saginaw, Michigan,           
I said "Honey I'm coming home please wait for
me,                           
You can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man,            
I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history".
              
Her dad met me    in Saginaw, Michegan,            
He gave me a great big party with champagne,                        
Then he said, "Son, you're a wise young ambitious man,              
Will you sell you're father in law your Klondike claim"?

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Now he's up there in Alaska, digging in the cold cold ground,        
the greedy fool is 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.