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 It's all a gamble when it's just a game You 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 going to 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 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
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 Oh, won't you please take me home
I wanna go I wanna know Oh, won't you please take me home
I wanna see Oh, look at me 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 Beat me down Oh, won't you please take me home
I wanna see Oh, look at me Oh, won't you please take me home
I wanna see Boy, I'm going to be mean 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 Yeah