Keep Lincoln Working

Shift change in the mornin', trucks pull in the lot

Coffee at the diner, it's the only break they got

Four hundred jobs out on that road, neighbors that we know

Then word came down from Springfield: they want the place to go

Keep Lincoln workin', keep our people near

Keep those paychecks spendin' on our Main Street here

It ain't over yet, we can turn this thing around

Keep Lincoln workin', stand up, hold our ground

It's a mom who works the night shift, it's a dad who drives in from Atlanta

It's a family on a mortgage and a kid who plays for Lincoln, man

A hundred forty miles up north to Crest Hill is where they'd send it

When even the union said you could build it right here and mend it

Keep Lincoln workin', keep our people near

Keep those paychecks spendin' on our Main Street here

It ain't over yet, we can turn this thing around

Keep Lincoln workin', stand up, hold our ground

Sally Turner, Doc Hauter, our mayor, the county board chair too

Stood up and said together, "This is the wrong thing to do"

And out past the edge of town, there's a campus we all knew

Sittin' empty, grey and quiet, since two thousand two

Now it ain't gone yet, and nothin's set in stone

Change who's up in Springfield, keep those good jobs home

So get on down to Room 20, fill in every line

We can turn it around, Logan County, one vote at a time

Tracy, Bailey, Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew

Solomon and Mary Miller, Turner, Hauter too

Allen for the schools and Duffy for the court

Pharis, Wright and Rendi Ray, the county's got support

Conrady, Fink and Knauer, Gleason, Coughlin, Hinton, Conahan

Every name, every line, Logan County, here we stand

Keep Lincoln workin', keep our people near

Keep those paychecks spendin' on our Main Street here

It ain't over yet, we can turn this thing around

Keep Lincoln workin', stand up, hold our ground

We can turn it around... keep Lincoln workin'.