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 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, Ya 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 yeah, yeah, 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 ya gonna believe 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, yeah 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, 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... home... Oh I wanna go, I wanna know Oh, won't you please take me home I wanna see, how good it could 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, oh yeah, lead me 'round Oh, won't you please take me home I wanna see, how can it be Oh, won't you please take me home I wanna see, what I could've been Oh, ah, 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! Please!