Roy Drusky

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"

Not good enough to claim his daughter's hand

That's why I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold

Like a crazy fool I'm diggin' in this 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 coming home, please wait for me

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

I've hit the biggest strike in Klondike history"

Her dad met me in Saginaw Michigan

He gave me a great big party with champagne

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

Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim?"

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

The greedy fool is a 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