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 Instrumental Just imagine living under the street of a hot cage that's tough to beat I'm your charity cage so buy me something to eat I'll pay you out another time Take it to the end of the line Instrumental Rags are ended off so they say you gotta keep prison for the fortunate few You know it, it's all a gamble when it's just a game You're treated like a capital crime Everybody's doing the 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 Instrumental Trapped in the chair of some city's gas turbine While I'm here I can't quite remember The surgeon general says he's had a list of three About half a dollar cigarette but I can't see How am I ever gonna believe? 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 So far away So far away So far away So far away Trapped in the bed with the door down far down You could go just for the broken hearted To be around and take me back to the start I must be losing my mind, are you blind? I've said it over a million times 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? 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? Home I wanna go, I wanna know Oh, won't you please take me home? I wanna see, I wanna be 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 paradox city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home? Take me down to the other side, take me down Oh, won't you please take me home? I wanna see, I wanna be Oh, won't you please take me home? I wanna see what I'm gonna be Oh, take me home Take me down to the paradox city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home? I wanna know, I wanna know Oh, won't you please take me home?