Year: 1987 - Album: Greatest Hits
Written by Guns N' Roses
Tuning Eb: (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb) Intro: G C F C G 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 (G C F C G) 4x OH won't you please, take me home Riff..! (G) Bb Just a'urchin livin' under the street G Bb I'm a hard case that's tough to beat G I'm your charity case Bb So buy me somethin' to eat G C I'll pay you at another time G Take it to the end of the line Riff (G) Bb Ragz to richez or so they say G Bb Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame G It's all gamble Bb When it's just a game C Ya treat it like a capital crime G Everybody's doing their time 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 (G) Take me home, yeah Riff (G) Bb Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber G Bb Why I'm here I can't quite remember G Bb The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe G C I'd have another cigarette but I can't see G Tell me who ya gonna believe 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 F Oh won't you please, take me home Solo Riff D C So far away D C So far away D C So far away D C Bb So far away (G) Bb Captain America's been torn apart G Bb Now he's a court jester with a borken heart He said: G Bb "Turn me around and take me back to start" G C I must be losin' my mind:"Are you blind?" G I've seen it all a million times 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 F Oh won't you please, take me home (repeat) G C F C G...