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


Just a' 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 end of the line


Rags to riches or so they say
Ya gotta-keep pushin'
For the fortune and fame

You know it's all a gamble
When it's just a game
Ya treat it like a capital crime

And everybody's 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

Oh, won't you please take me home
Yeah!


Strapped in the chair
Of the city gas chamber
Why I'm here I can't quite remember

The surgeon general says
It's hazardous to breathe
I'd had another cigarette

But I can't even 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
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


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!


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!

I want you to sing
Boy, you gotta be mean
Oh won't you take me home


Oh take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty

Oh, won't you, take me home
I wanna go
And I wanna know
Take me home!