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 Oh, won't you please take me home



Just an urgin livin' under the street, hard case that's tough to beat

I'm your charity case, so buy me somethin' to eat, I'll pay you at another time

Take it to the end of the line



Ragz to richez or so they say, ya gotta-keep pushin' for the fortune and fame

It's all a gamble when it's just a game, ya treat it like a capital crime

Everybody's doing their 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



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



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 losin' 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



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



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



Oh I wanna go, I wanna go, oh won't you please 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