Paradise City

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
Oh, won’t you please take me home

Just an urchin living 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
You gotta keep pushing
For the fortune and fame
You know it’s, it’s all a gamble
When it’s just a game
You treat it like a capitol crime:
Everybody 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
Oh, won’t you please 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
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
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