Watermelon Town

Back in eighteen fifty-three, the rails came rollin' through

The Chicago and Mississippi, shinin' fresh and new

A lawyer for the railroad, name of Abraham

Helped 'em lay out every lot across that prairie land

Watermelon town, watermelon town

First town named for Lincoln, and we're still holdin' ground

Where the melon hit the square and the juice ran on the ground

Logan County, come on home, to watermelon town

They said "We'll name it Lincoln," Abe just shook his head

"Nothin' with my name on it amounts to much," he said

But he bought two watermelons, one under either arm

Walked 'em to the public square, and it worked just like a charm

He said "Now we'll christen the new town," squeezed 'em on the ground

Watermelon town, watermelon town

First town named for Lincoln, and we're still holdin' ground

Where the melon hit the square and the juice ran on the ground

Logan County, come on home, to watermelon town

Now he never took a drink, so it was juice instead of wine

He rode the Eighth Circuit, Postville and Pulaski, down the line

And a hundred seventy years later, here we stand

Same square, same county, same rich prairie land

So if Abe could christen a town with a melon in each hand

You can walk into Room 20 and take a little stand

Or November third, your polling place, six till seven, now

Do it for the county, and do it for old Abe somehow

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

Watermelon town, watermelon town

First town named for Lincoln, and we're still holdin' ground

Where the melon hit the square and the juice ran on the ground

Logan County, come on home, to watermelon town

Watermelon town...