Matt Crimmins

[ 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?

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 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 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

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 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

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 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

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've seen it all a million times

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 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 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?

I wanna go I wanna go Oh, won't you please take me home?

I wanna see How could it 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 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 'round Oh, won't you please take me home?

I wanna see How could it be? Oh, 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?

I wanna go I wanna go Oh, won't you please take me home?

Yeah, baby!]