• Artist: David Haines
• Title: City of Dreams
• Length: 3:34 minutes (2.49 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 96Kbps (CBR)

City of Dreams, a song celebrating some of Chicago’s most important discoveries and inventions, was written and conceived by composer and songwriter David Haines, who finds inspiration for his songs from his love of science. His unique musical style and catchy and quirky songs appeal to all ages from pre-schoolers to senior citizens.  For more information about David Haines or to learn about other science songs he has written and recorded, check out www.singtastic.com

CITY OF DREAMS

Marvin Camras in the thirties
Recorded sound on magnetised wire
Fooled the Nazis at D Day landings
By playing battle sounds - bombs, bangs, gunfire
They turned that volume up higher and higher!

Martin Cooper made a phone call
Back in April seventy-three
He made the first cell phone of all
He made the first cell phone call in history
Wond' ring what he said's a point of curiosity

City of dreams, city of wonders
City where the future arrives today
City of dreams, city of wonders
Others follow where she leads the way
City of dreams, city of wonders
Innovation, invention, investigation
City of dreams, city of wonders
Pride of Illinois, pride of the nation

Chicago, city of science
C. H. I. C. A. G. O.
Chicago, city of science where
Innovation triumphs and ideas grow

December forty-two saw a vital stage in the
Growth of the modern nuclear age
The first controlled, sustained nuclear chain reaction
Enrico Fermi was the guy who did it
Top secret so his team hid it on a
Stagg Field squash court under a tent
I often wonder where that tent went

Chicago, city of science
C. H. I. C. A. G. O.
Chicago, city of science where
Innovation triumphs and ideas grow

Doctor Huggins in the forties
Discovered that cancer needs hormones to thrive
Blocking those hormones
Starving that tumour
Helps the patient to survive
For that he won a precious Nobel Prize

Doctor Janet R
owley studying leukemia
Found that genes swapping places can be
At the root of many cancers
Chromosomal abnormality
The translocation of carcinogenity

Chicago, city of science
C. H. I. C. A. G. O.
Chicago, city of science where
Innovation triumphs and ideas grow

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