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 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, 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, 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 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

Oh, I want to go, I want to know

Oh, won't you please take me home?

I want to 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(2x)

Oh, won't you please take me home?

I want to see how good it can be

Oh, won't you please take me home?

I want to see how good it 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 want to know, I want to know

Oh, won't you please take me home?

Yeah, baby!