Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the 1 are pretty
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)

Just an urchin livin' 2 the street
I'm a hard case that's tough to beat
I'm your charity 3
So by me somethin' to eat
I'll pay you at another 4
Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches
Or so they say
You gotta
Keep 5 ' for the fortune and fame
You know it's, it's all a gamble
When it's just a game
You treat it 6 a capitol crime
Everybody' doin' their time

Strapped in the chair of the city's gas 7
Why I'm here, I can't quite remember
The surgoen 8 say's it's hazardous to breathe
I'd have another cigarette
But I can't see
Tell me that you're 9 believe

So far away x4

Capitain America's been 10 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 mllion times

I want to go
I want to know
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
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)

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
Beat me down
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please take me home

I want to see
Boy, I'm gonna be mean
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