Simon: Let the River Run

"Let the River Run" from Working Girl (1988)
by Carly Simon
arr. by Craig Hella Johnson

SATB recording
Music video recording

Lyrics:
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

Carly Simon biography

Grammy award winning singer/songwriter and Martha's Vineyard resident, Carly Simon, has stated that she drew inspiration for "Let the River Run" from the Working Girl script as well as the poems of Walt Whitman. "Let the River Run" won the 1989 Academy Award and the 1989 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and won a 1990 Grammy for Best song written for a movie or television show.