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    Ragz to richez or so they say  Ya gotta-keep pushin'  for the fortune and fame  It's all a gamble  When it's just a game  Ya treat it like a capital crime  Everybody's doin' their time    [Chorus:]    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    [Chorus]    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    [Chorus]