Lyrics

[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? [Instrumental Break] One, two, three, jump [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 thе end of the line [Verse 2] Rags to richеs, or so they say, you gotta Keep pushin' for the fortune and fame, you know 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 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 [Verse 3] 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 [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? Yeah [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] So far away Let's hear it So far away So far away So far away [Verse 4] Captain America's been torn apart, now A court jester with a broken heart, he said "Turn me around, 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 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 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? [Post-Chorus] Home [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? [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey (Hey, hey, hey, hey) Hey, hey, hey, hey (Hey, hey, hey, hey) Hey, hey (Hey, hey) [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] I wanna know, 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? Manchester, thank you so much Thank you so very much [Instrumental Outro]