Ten years ago on a cold dark night There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all agree That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
The judge said son what is your alibi If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die I spoke not a word though it meant my life For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills In a long black veil She visits my grave When the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
The scaffold's high and eternity near She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones
She walks these hills In a long black veil She visits my grave When the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
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
Ten years ago on a cold dark night There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all agree That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me. The judge said son what is your alibi If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die I spoke not a word though it meant my life For I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife. She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me. The scaffold's high and eternity near She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear But sometimes at night when the cold wind blows In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones. She walks these hills in a long black veil She visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me. Nobody knows but me. Nobody knows but me...
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