Lyrics:

Blue Water Line
by The Brothers Four
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The city council met last week
The vote was four to three
To burn the hometown depot down
And build a factory

To take that piece of history
And tear it off the map
To melt old engine number nine
And turn it into scrap

Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
If you can't afford a quarter
Then you oughta give a dime
If everybody gave
Then we could save the
Blue Water Line

Oh, I could tell your stories
Of the glories on that train
Of the forty-niner miners
And the time old Jesse James

Stole a thousand golden nuggets
In the great train robbery
And when old Abe Lincoln rode
With Todd upon his knee

Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
If you can't afford a quarter
Then you oughta give a dime
If everybody gave
Then we could save the
Blue Water Line

Just twenty thousand quarters
And forty thousand dimes
And we'll ride again to glory
On the old Blue Water Line

We'll have William Jennings Bryan
Stoking coal on number nine
So dig inside your pockets for
The old Blue Water Line

Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
If you can't afford a quarter
Then you oughta give a dime
If everybody gave
Then we could save the
Blue Water Line

If everybody gave
Then we could save the
Blue Water Line

Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line
Blue Water, Blue Water
Blue Water Line.