American city anthem from 1988

The Chicago Board of Trade building

Are there songs from your past...

when you hear them now - you are RIGHT back

to a past memory ... vivid as ever?
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Fans of 80's movies should remember "Working Girl".

Whenever I hear the theme song,

it reminds me of working in the Chicago loop...

I loved working down there - it was awesome...

See pix from my recent trip home to Chicago September 2009 here.

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Written for the 1988 movie "Working Girl", Carly Simon "wanted to write something that would be a hymn to New York and it's aspiring throngs. A jungle hymn. I looked to Walt Whitman for inspiration and my husband, Jim, had some great poetic lines that he generously shared with me."

"Let The River Run" went on to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy.

We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
let all the dreamers
wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

Silver cities rise,
the morning lights
the streets that meet them,
and sirens call them on
with a song.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.

We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

We the great and small
stand on a star
and blaze a trail of desire
through the dark'ning dawn.

It's asking for the taking.
Come run with me now,
the sky is the color of blue
you've never even seen
in the eyes of your lover.

Oh, my heart is aching.
We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

[guitar]

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.
We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
let all the dreamers
wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

AMERICA, YOU ARE EXCEPTIONAL... & don't you forget it...