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Let the River Run
written and originally performed by Carly Simon
For all workers, employees, staff, personnel, assistants, writers, artisans, creators — labor, artistic, scientific, and intellectual workers WORLDWIDE: Claim our day, claim our rights: Happy May One!
(written and originally performed by Carly Simon:
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.
(Bridge)
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.
Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come — the new jerusalem.
