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

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 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

You treat it like a capital crime

Everybody's doin' 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

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

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

Home

I wanna go

Oh won't you please take me home.

I wanna see,

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