Zoom - City Child (1975)

Season 4 (1974-1975)

Album: Zoom Tunes (1977)

Video: Zoom Best Of The 70s (1998)

Based on poems by Valerie Lacey of Chicago, Illinois, Patricia Taillon of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Tammy Fishnick of Berwyn, Illinois

Lyrics: I am a city child
I live on the tip top floor
Of an old apartment building
With a very creaky door

I zig zag through the traffic
I ride the playground swings
I dash down to the subway
As if I had real wings

We play ball against the steps
And hopscotch on the street
And Jacks, and tag and giant steps
And even hide and go seek

I am a city child
I live on the tip top floor
Of an old apartment building
With a very creaky door

The city comes to life at night
While children sleep, its eyes are bright

A city walks, a city talks
A city rumbles, jingles, grumbles
A city chuckles, groans and sighs
Sometimes a city even cries

City child
What you doing now, city child
Where are you going now, city child
What you up to now

Do skyscrapers ever grow tired
Of holding themselves up high
Do they ever shiver on frosty nights
With their tops against the sky

Do they be lonely sometimes
Because they have grown so tall
Do they ever wish they could live right down
And never get up at all

City child
What you doing now, city child
Where are you going now, city child
What you up to now

I am a city child
I live on the tip top floor
Of an old apartment building
With a very creaky door

City child
What you doing now, city child
Where are you going now, city child
What you up to now

City child
What you doing now, city child
Where are you going now, city child
What you up to now