[Chorus]

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?)

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

Rags to riches, or so they say, you gotta

Keep pushin' 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 doin' the time

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

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 gonna believe

[Chorus]

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

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

So far away

So far away

So far away

So far away

[Verse 4]

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

[Chorus]

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?

[Post-Chorus]

Home

[Bridge]

Oh

I wanna go, I wanna know

Oh, won't you please take me home? (Oh yeah)

I wanna see how good it can be

Oh, won't you please take me home?

[Chorus]

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

Oh, won't you please take me home?

[Post-Chorus]

Take me down (Oh yeah), meet me 'round (Yeah)

Oh, won't you please take me home? (Home)

I wanna see (Oh yeah) how good it can be (Oh yeah)

Oh, won't you please take me home?

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

I wanna see, ooh, how good it can be

Oh, oh, take me home

[Chorus]

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? (Oh, won't you, oh, won't you take me home?)

[Outro]

I wanna know (I wanna), I wanna know (I wanna)

Oh, won't you please take me home?

Yeah, baby

Please