Saginaw Michigan
Roy Drusky Lyrics

I was born in Saginaw Michigan
I was born in a place called Saginaw that is in Michigan.

I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay
During my childhood, my home was located near the Saginaw Bay which is a body of water in Michigan.

My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman
My father was a fisherman who lived in Saginaw and he had to work very hard to make a living.

Too many nights he came home with too little pay
Many times, my father didn't earn enough money from his fishing job to support our family.

I loved a girl in Saginaw Michigan
I was in love with a girl who lived in the same place as me, Saginaw Michigan.

The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man
The girl that I loved was the daughter of a very rich person.

But he called me, "That son of a Saginaw fisherman"
The girl's father referred to me as someone who was not good enough for his daughter because my father was just a fisherman from Saginaw.

Not good enough to claim his daughter's hand
The girl's father didn't approve of me and therefore, I couldn't marry her.

That's why I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold
I went to Alaska to search for gold because I wanted to become rich and prove to the girl's father that I was good enough for his daughter.

Like a crazy fool I'm diggin' in this frozen ground so cold
I am digging the ground in Alaska despite the extreme cold weather and difficult conditions, like a crazy person would.

But with each new day, I pray I'll strike it rich and then
Every morning, I hope to find a large amount of gold so I can become rich and successful.

I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw Michigan
Once I have become a wealthy man, I plan to return to Saginaw and marry the girl that I love.

I wrote my love in Saginaw Michigan
I wrote a letter expressing my love to the girl who lived in Saginaw Michigan.

I said, "Honey I'm coming home, please wait for me
In the letter, I told her that I would be returning home soon and asked her to wait for me.

You can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man
I told her to inform her father that I would be returning to Saginaw as a wealthy person, so he would approve of me as a suitor.

I've hit the biggest strike in Klondike history"
I told her that I had struck the largest amount of gold in the Klondike region of Alaska, making me extremely rich.

Her dad met me in Saginaw Michigan
After returning to Saginaw, I met with the girl's father in person.

He gave me a great big party with champagne
The girl's father hosted a party for me and celebrated my newfound wealth with expensive champagne.

Then he said, "Son you're a wise, young, ambitious man
The girl's father acknowledged my ambition and wealth, and recognized me as someone who was wise and talented.

Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim?"
However, in a cunning move, the girl's father asked me to sell my gold mine in Alaska to him as a condition to marry his daughter.

So now he's up there in Alaska diggin' in the cold, cold ground
The girl's father went to Alaska to dig for gold himself, after tricking me into selling him my gold mine.

The greedy fool is a lookin' for the gold I never found
However, the girl's father was not able to find any gold in Alaska, wasting his time and effort in greedy pursuit of wealth.

It serves him right and no one here is missing him
People in Saginaw were happy to see the girl's father fail in his attempt to find gold in Alaska, as he was a greedy and cunning man who tricked me.

Least of all the newly weds of Saginaw Michigan
The newlyweds in Saginaw, including myself and the girl that I love, were particularly unaffected by the failure of the girl's father in Alaska.