This promotional video was filmed on the Staten Island ferry and in New York City.
This Working Girl trailer shows scenes that never made it into the final movie.
Directed by Mike Nichols - Melanie Griffith stars as Tesse McGill, a Staten Island secretary who is determined to use her brains and talent to pull herself out of the secretarial pool and into the upper echelons of New York's brokerage industry. Harrison Ford, Signourney Weaver and Joan Cusack co-star.
Lyrics & Music by Carly Simon
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 lead 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 darkling 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
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
Produced by Carly Simon & Rob Mounsey
Keyboards: Rob Mounsey
Guitars: Jimmy Ryan
Drums: Mick Curry
Background Singers: Lani Groves, Kasey Cisyk, Vaneese Thomas, Vivian Cherry, Frank Simms, Kurt Yahjian, Frank Floyd, Gordon Grody
Engineerd by: Tim Leitner
Mixed by: Frank Filipetti
© 1989 20th Century Fox
Carly Simon, Clive Davis, Melanie Griffith
Working Girl video shoot - Carly Simon on the ferry
Melanie Griffith & Carly Simon - outtake photo shoot
Carly Simon & husband Jim Hart arriving on the red carpet at the Academy Awards
Carly Simon holding the Oscar she won for Best Original Song: Let The River Run
some of them mysterious, to Jim Hart and Mike Nichols, with all my love. - Carly Simon
Musician Credits are listed by each song - click on the Lyrics tab
Let The River Run - Produced by: Carly Simon & Rob Mounsey
In Love (Instrumental) - Produced by: Carly Simon
The Scar (Instrumental) - Produced by: Carly Simon & Rob Mounsey
The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys: Let The River Run - Produced by:
Carly Simon & Rob Mounsey
Chris De Burgh: Lady In Red - Produced by: Paul Hardiman
Carolotta's Heart - Produced by: Carly Simon
Looking Through Katherine's House - Produced by: Carly Simon & Rob Mounsey
Sonny Rollins: Poor Butterfly (Instrumental) - Produced by: Alfred Lion
Pointer Sisters: I'm So Excited - Produced by: Richard Perry
The Dress-for-Success Story Of a Secretary From Staten Island Read
Carly,
I picked up your Anthology CD set for one song, Let the River Run. I rarely buy CD's but this song speaks to my soul. As my spirituality has developed over the last number of years I have been able to find truth, especially in music.
Your song speaks of SO much truth, it really is "in the asking"! Your song speaks to each soul whom is looking for their purpose... I love it! What were you thinking at this time of your life that this could pour out of you? Thank you, Bill - Ballston Lake, NY
Dear Ms. Simon,
I teach 8th grade English in Cabot, Arkansas. When I announced that our poetry unit was about to begin, every kid groaned. They have poetry-phobia, because they don't understand the symbolism, so I took a different approach.
I took the lyrics to one of your songs, Let the River Run, told them that there weren't right or wrong answers to the symbolism, and put them in groups of three - one right brainer, one left brainer, and one in the middle. They read through the lyrics three times in silence, jotting down ideas as they came. After three readings, the groups discussed.
These kids got fantastic ideas from your piece. And, whether their meanings were right or wrong, each kid made the lines meaningful to him or her. One group said that it was about September 11, 2001, and the rebuilding of a damaged nation and a damaged city. One group thought it was about the holocaust and the Jewish people rebuilding their lives after the camps were liberated. One group thought that it was a "call-to-arms" for human beings to rise above fear and make their individual dreams come true. The ideas go on and on...
If I wrote poetry or lyrics, I would want to know if my writing was meaningful to a room full of mixed-up teenagers in the middle of Arkansas, so I'm writing to let you know that it was. It was meaningful in about 30 different ways, but it was very definitely meaningful. Some kids have asked if they could write you and send their ideas, but I didn't have an address. I found this, though, so I thought I'd write on behalf of my children.
If you're ever near Arkansas, you have an open invitation to a poetry discussion. Many thanks on heartfelt thoughts.
Sincerely, Amy McFarland - Cabot, AR
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