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 
Oh, won't you please take me home  

Just an urchin livin' under the street, 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 

 Ragz to richez or so they say, ya gotta-keep pushin' for the fortune and fame 
It's all a gamble when it's just a game, ya 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  
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 you're gonna believe 

 Take me down to the paradise city
 Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
 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 
 

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 

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