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 all a gamble when it's just a game
They treat it like a capital crime
Everybody's doing the 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

Trapped in a chair in 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
Everybody's doing the time

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
Capital America's been torn apart now
Who's a court jester with a broken heart, girl
To me you'd rather 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

Home

I wanna go, I wanna go
Oh, won't you please take me home

I wanna see, I've gotta 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

Take me down, take me down
Oh, won't you please take me home
Got to see, I've got to see
Oh, won't you please take me home
Got to see, I've got to see
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 go
Oh, won't you please take me home