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Track: Saginaw, Michigan
Artist: Lefty Frizzell
Album: The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 6 - 1959-1963

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Name: Lefty Frizzell
Spotify Genres: classic country, honky tonk, traditional country, outlaw country
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American country music singer and songwriter, born 31 March 1928 in Corsicana, Texas, USA and died 19 July 1975 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Frizzell is considered one of the most important country musicians, influencing many country vocalists in the generations that followed with his more mainstream honky-tonk style. His younger brother is country singer [a=David Frizzell] and his other brother is [a=Allen Frizzell] His niece is [a8899726].

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Release: Lefty Frizzell - Saginaw Michigan
Year: 1964
Genres: Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Country

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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 times 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
And not good enough to claim his daughter's hand

Now I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold
Like a crazy fool I'm digging 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
And 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, Michigan
He gave me a great big party with champagne
Then he said son you wise young ambitious man
Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim

Now he's up there in Alaska digging in the cold, cold ground
The greedy fool is looking for the gold I never found
It serves him right and no one here is missing him
Least of all the newlyweds of Saginaw, Michigan

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

He's ashamed to show his face in Saginaw, Michigan