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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

I'm a hard case that's tough to beat

I'm your charity case

So by me something to eat

I'll pay you at another time

Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches

Or so they say

You gotta

Keep pushing 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 capitol crime

Everybody' doin' 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 surgoen general say's it's hazardous to breathe

I'd have another cigarette, but I can't see

Tell me that you're gonna believe

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

So far away

So far away

So far away

So far away

Capitain 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 losing my mind

"Are you blind?!"

I've seen it all a mllion times

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

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