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The City Council met last night, the vote was four to three,
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To tear the home town depot down and build a factory,
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To take that stretch of history and tear it off the map
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And to take old engine number nine and turn it into scrap.
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Blue Water, Blue Water, Blue Water Line,
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Blue Water, Blue Water, Blue Water Line.
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If you can't afford a quarter, then you ought to give a dime.
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If everybody gave then we could save the Blue Water Line.
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Oh, I could tell you stories of the glories of that train,
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Of the '49er miners and the time old Jesse James
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Stole a thousand golden nuggets in that great train robbery,
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And when old Abe Lincoln rode with Tad upon his knee.
[Chorus]
C C F C
Blue Water, Blue Water, Blue Water Line,
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Blue Water, Blue Water, Blue Water Line.
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If you can't afford a quarter, then you ought to give a dime.
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If everybody gave then we could save the Blue Water Line.
[Verse]
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Just twenty thousand nickels and forty thousand dimes,
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We'll ride again to glory on that old Blue Water Line.
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We'll have William Jennings Bryan stokin' coal on number nine,
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So reach into your pockets, boys, for the old Blue Water Line.
[Chorus]
C C F C
Blue Water, Blue Water, Blue Water Line,
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Blue Water, Blue Water, Blue Water Line.
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If you can't afford a quarter, then you ought to give a dime.
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If everybody gave then we could save the Blue Water Line.
