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