Saginaw, Michigan [Previously Unreleased Track] chords by Johnny Cash

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Verse 1
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I was born in Saginaw, Michigan
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And I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay
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My daddy was a poor hard
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working Saginaw fisherman
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Too many times he came
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home with too little pay

Verse 2
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I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan
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She was the daughter of a wealthy,
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wealthy man
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But he called me,
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"That son of a Saginaw fisherman"
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And not good enough to ever claim
his daughter's hand
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Verse 3
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That's why I'm up here in Alaska
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looking around for gold
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Like a crazy fool I'm a digging
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in the frozen ground, so cold
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But with each new day I pray
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I'll strike it rich and then
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I'll go back home and claim
my love in Saginaw, Michigan
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Verse 4
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I wrote my love in Saginaw, Michigan
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I said, "Honey, I'm a coming home,
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please wait for me
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And you can tell your dad that I'm
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coming back a richer man
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I've hit the biggest strike in
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Klondike history"
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Verse 5
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Her dad met the bus in Saginaw,
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Michigan
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And he gave me a  great big
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party with champagne
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Then he said, "Son, you're wise,
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young ambitious man
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Why don't you sell your father-in-law
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your your your Klondike claim?"
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Verse 6
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Now he's up there in Alaska digging in the cold,
cold ground
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That greedy fool is a looking for
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the gold I never found
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But it serves him right and nobody
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here is missing him
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Least of all the newly-weds
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of of Saginaw, Michigan