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...