Paradise City

                                  [Chorus]

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home  (oh won't you please take me home)

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home  (oh won't you please take me home)



Just a urchin livin' under the street

I'm a hard case that's tough to beat

I'm your charity case so buy me something to eat

I'll pay you at another time

Take it to the end of the line



Rags to riches or so they say

Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame

You know it's all a gamble when it's just a game

Ya treat it like a capital crime

Everybody's doin' the time



Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Oh won't you please take me home

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home, yeah yeah



Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber

Why I'm here I can't quite remember

The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe

I'd have another cigarette but I can't see

Tell me who you're gonna believe



Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home, yeah yeah

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Oh won't you please take me home



So far away

So far away

So far away

So far away



Captain America's been torn apart

Now he's a court jester with a broken heart

He said "turn me around and take me back to the start"

I must be losing my mind "are you blind?"

I've seen it all a million times



Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home, yeah yeah

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Oh won't you please take me home

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home, yeah yeah

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Oh won't you please take me home



I wanna go, I wanna go

Oh won't you please take me home

I wanna see how good it can be

Oh won't you please take me home

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Oh won't you please take me home

Take me down, lead me 'round

Oh won't you please take me home



I wanna see, what a woman can be

I want to take you home

Take me down to the paradise city

Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Oh won't you please take me home

I wanna go, I wanna know

Oh won't you please take me home