Paradise City

[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? [Instrumental Break] [Verse 1] Just an 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 еnd of the line [Verse 2] Rags to riches, or so thеy say, you gotta Keep pushin' for the fortune and fame You know it, 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 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? [Verse 3] Stuck 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 that 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 [Instrumental Break] [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 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? Yeah yeah 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] I wanna go, I wanna know Oh, won't you please take me home? I wanna see how 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 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, take me down Oh, won't you please take me home? Take me down, take me home Oh, won't you please take me home?