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

Rags to riches or so they say

Ya gotta-keep pushin'

For the fortune and fame

You know it's all a gamble

When it's just a game

Ya treat it like a capital crime

And 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

Oh, won't you please take me home

Yeah!

Strapped in the chair

Of the city gas chamber

Why I'm here I can't quite remember

The surgeon general says

It's hazardous to breathe

I'd had another cigarette

But I can't even see

Tell me that you're gonna believe

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

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

So far away

So far away

So far away

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!

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!

I want you to sing

Boy, you gotta be mean

Oh won't you take me home

Oh take me down

To the paradise city

Where the grass is green

And the girls are pretty

Oh, won't you, take me home

I wanna go

And I wanna know

Take me home!