Intro: G C F C G G C F C G Chorus: G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home Bridge: G C F C G G C F C G Solo: G C F C G G C F C G Pre-Verse: G C F C G Verse 1: G C Just a urchin livin' under the street I'm a hard case that's tough to beat F C G I'm your charity case so buy me something to eat C I'll pay you at another time Take it to the end of the line Pre-Verse: G C F C G Verse 2: G Rags to riches or so they say C Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame F C You know it's all a gamble when it's just a game G C Ya treat it like a capital crime Everybody's doin' the time Chorus: G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home, yeah yeah G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Take me home Pre-Verse: G C F C G Verse 3: G C Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber Why I'm here I can't quite remember F C The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe G C I'd have another cigarette but I can't see Tell me who you're gonna believe Chorus: G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Take me home, yeah yeah G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G G Oh won't you please take me home Solo 2: C F C G G C F C G Bridge: C D C So far away D C So far away D C So far away D C So far away Verse 4: G C Captain America's been torn apart F Now he's a court jester with a broken heart C He said "turn me around and take me back to the start" G C I must be losing my mind "are you blind?" I've seen it all a million times Chorus: G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Take me home, yeah yeah G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Take me home, yeah yeah G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home, home Outro: G C F C G G C F C G G C I wanna go, I wanna go F C G Oh won't you please take me home G C I wanna see how good it can be F C G Oh won't you please take me home G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Take me home, G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home, Interlude: G C F C G G C F C G G C Take me down, lead me 'round F C G Oh won't you please take me home G C I wanna see, what a woman can be F C G I want to take you home G Take me down to the paradise city C Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty F C G Oh won't you please take me home, G C I wanna go, I wanna know F C G Oh won't you please take me home
