Saginaw Michigan chords by Lefty Frizzell

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
D7D7 G+G


Verse:

   G+G
I was born

D7D7      G+G
In Saginaw, Michigan

    C majorC    G+G        D7D7
I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay

       G+G     G7G7        C majorC
My dad was a poor, hard-working Saginaw fisherman

     G+G         D7D7       G+G
Too many times he came home with too little pay

      G+G
I loved a girl

D7D7      G+G
In Saginaw, Michigan

   C majorC       G+G        D7D7
The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man

       G+G    G7G7        C majorC
But he called me that son of a Saginaw fisherman

     G+G       D7D7          G+G
And not good enough to claim his daughter's hand


Bridge:

    C majorC         G+G
Now I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold

    D7D7               G+G
Like a crazy fool I'm digging in this frozen ground so cold

     C majorC                 G+G
But with each new day I pray I'll strike it rich and then

       D7D7                 G+G
I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan

Verse:

      G+G
I wrote my love

D7D7      G+G
In Saginaw, Michigan

    C majorC        G+G          D7D7
I said honey I'm coming home please wait for me

            G+G    G7G7      C majorC
And you can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man

      G+G         D7D7      G+G
I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history

      G+G
Her dad met me

D7D7      G+G
In Saginaw, Michigan

  C majorC          G+G       D7D7
He gave me a great big party with champagne

       G+G       G7G7     C majorC
Then he said son you're a wise young ambitious man

     G+G         D7D7         G+G
Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim


Bridge:

       C majorC        G+G
Now he's up there in Alaska diggin' in the cold, cold ground

   D7D7              G+G
The greedy fool is looking for the gold I never found

  C majorC                 G+G
It serves him right and no one here is missing him

     D7D7               G+G
Least of all the newlyweds of Saginaw, Michigan

          D7D7            G+G
We're the happiest man and wife in Saginaw, Michigan

         D7D7            G+G