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 lineRags to riches or so they say
Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame You know it's, it's all a gamble when it's just a game Ya treat it like a capital crime Everybody's doin' the timeTake me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home, yeah yeah Take me down to the paradise city Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Take me homeStrapped 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 believeTake 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, yeah yeahSo far away
So far away So far away So far awayCaptain 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 timesTake 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 homeI 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 homeI wanna see, what a woman can be
Oh, won't you please take me home I wanna see, what a woman can be (oh, oh 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 I wanna go, I wanna know Oh, won't you please take me home, yeah baby