If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again lyrics

If I ever get to Saginaw again

A locale that's somewhat off the beaten track

Get to see the girl I never saw again

Who must know why I have never ventured back

Oh, we were young

And so alive

And now I wonder if she'd cling to me

Become my very own as she did then

If I ever get to Saginaw again

If I ever get to Saginaw again

It won't be in spring with meadows turning green

It won't be to tangle with the law again

It won't be with someone only seventeen

Who gave her love

And made me hers

And when you find the one you're dreaming of

Who thinks to ask, "How old is love?"

Not when

You may never get to Saginaw again

If I ever get to Saginaw again

I will get to see the son who bears my name

And perhaps I'll quietly withdraw again

When I see the little man that he became

But how I yearn

To watch him grow

A father's love is maybe all it takes

To not repeat the sad mistakes of men

If I ever get to Saginaw again