Saginaw, Michigan Lyrics

The song Saginaw, Michigan is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named Personal File in the year 2006 .



I was born in Saginaw, Michigan
And I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay
My daddy was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman
Too many times he came home with too little pay

I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan
She was the daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man
But he called me, "That son of a Saginaw fisherman"
And not good enough to ever claim his daughter's hand

That's why I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold
Like a crazy fool I'm a digging in the 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 a coming home, please wait for me
And you can tell your dad that I'm coming back a richer man
I've hit the biggest strike in Klondyke history"

Her dad met the bus in Saginaw, Michigan
And he gave me a great big party with champagne
Then he said, "Son, you're wise, young ambitious man
Why don't you sell your father-in-law your Klondyke claim?"

Now he's up there in Alaska digging in the cold, cold ground
That greedy fool is a looking for the gold I never found
But it serves him right and nobody here is missing him
Least of all the newly-weds of Saginaw, Michigan



Johnny Cash - Personal File

May 2006

  1. The Letter Edged In Black
  2. There's A Mother Always Waiting At Home
  3. The Engineer's Dying Child
  4. My Mother Was A Lady
  5. The Winding Stream
  6. Far Away Places
  7. Galway Bay
  8. When I Stop Dreaming
  9. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
  10. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
  11. Missouri Waltz
  12. Louisiana Man
  13. Paradise
  14. I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave
  15. Jim, I Wore A Tie Today
  16. Saginaw, Michigan
  17. Girl In Saskatoon
  18. The Cremation Of Sam McGee
  19. It's All Over
  20. A Fast Song
  21. Virgie
  22. I Wanted So
  23. Seal It In My Heart And Mind
  24. Wildwood In The Pines
  25. Who At My Door Is Standing
  26. Have Thine Own Way Lord
  27. Lights Of Magdala
  28. If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman
  29. The Lily Of The Valley
  30. Have A Drink Of Water
  31. The Way Worn Traveler
  32. Look Unto The East
  33. Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At The Door)
  34. The House Is Falling Down
  35. One Of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul
  36. What On Earth (Will You Do For Heaven's Sake)
  37. My Children Walk In The Truth
  38. Sanctified
  39. Lord, Lord, Lord
  40. What Is Man
  41. A Half A Mile A Day
  42. Life's Railway To Heaven

Saginaw, Michigan