The City Council met last night, the vote was four to three 

To tear the home town depot down and build a factory 

To take that stretch of history and tear it off the map 

And to take 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 ought to give a dime 

If everybody gave then we could save the Blue Water Line 


Oh I could tell you stories of the glories of that train 

Of the 49'er miners and the time old Jesse James 

Stole a thousand golden nuggets in that great train robbery 

And when old Abe Lincoln rode with Tad 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 ought to 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 that old Blue Water Line 

We'll have William Jennings Bryant 

stokin' coal on number nine 

So reach into your pockets boys 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 ought to 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...