Paradise City

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab


CHORUS x2
 -5  -4  -4
Take me down 

-4 -3  -4 -4  -4  -4 -4
To the pa-ra-dise ci-ty

 -4   -3   -4   -4  -4
Where the grass is green

-4  -3   -4   -4   -5  -4
And the girls are pret-ty

-6    6   -5    6
Oh, won't you please 

 6   -6   -5 5 -4
Take me     home


Verse:
 -4  -4  5  -4
Just an ur-chin

 -4 -4   4 -4  -4   -5
Liv-in' un-der the street

-5 -5  -4   -4
I'm a hard case 

 -4     -4   -5  -5
That's tough to beat

-4   4    4  4  -4  -4
I'm your cha-ri-ty case

-4 -4 -4  -4   -5   -5 -4
So by me some-thin' to eat

 -5  -4  -5  -5 -5 -5  -5  -4 6
I'll pay you at an-oth-er  time

 6   -6’ 6  -5   6  -5 -4   -4
Take it  to the end of the line



 -4  -4  -4  -4
Rags to rich-es

-4 4   -4  -5
Or so they say

-5   -4 -4
You got-ta

 -4   -4  -4
Keep push-in' 

-4  -4   -5  -5  -5   -4
For the fort-une and fame

 4   -4  -4
You know it's, 

 -4  -4 -4  4  -4
It's all a gam-ble

 -4  -4    -4 -4  -4
When it's just a game

-4   -5   -5  -5
You treat it like 

-5 -5 -5 -4    6
 A ca-pi-tol crime

6  -6’ 6  -5   6  -5   -4    -4
Ev-‘ry bo dy's do-in' their time

CHORUS x2
   -4    -4 -4   -4
Strapped in the chair 

-4  4  -4 -4   -4   -5  -5
Of the cit-y's gas cham-ber

-4  -4   -4
Why I'm here

-4  -4    -5   -5 -4   4
 I can't quite re-mem-ber

-4  -4   -4   -4  -4   -4
The sur-goen gen-‘ral say's 

 4   -4 -4   -4  4    -5
It's ha-zar-dous to breathe

 -4   -5  -5 -5  -4 -5 -5  -5
I'll have an-oth-er ci-ga-rette

-4 -5  -4    6
But I can't see

 6   -6’  6   -5     6  -5 -4  -4
Tell me that you're gon-na be-lieve

CHORUS x2

5   5  5 -4
So far a-way

5  5 6  5   5 -5 5 -4
So far  a-    way

5   5  5 -4
So far a-way

5  5 6  5  -6 6
So far  a-  way


-4   4   4 -4 -4 -4
Cap-tain A-me-ri-ca's 

 -4   4  -4  -5
Been torn a-part

-5   4  -4  -4    -4  -4
Now he's a court jest-er

 -5 -5  -4  4   4
With a brok-en heart

-4  -4     4   -4 -4  -4
He said, “Turn me  a-round 

-4   4   -4  -4  4  -5    4
And take me back to the start.”

-5  -5  -5  -5 -5  4   6
 I must be los-ing my mind

 6  -5   -6
Are you blind?

 -4   6   -6’ 6 -5  6  -5 -4  -4
I've seen it all a mil-li-on times

CHORUS x4
-6  6   -5 -6
 I want to go

-6  6   -6  -5 -4
 I want to   know

-6    6   -5    6
Oh, won't you please 

 6   -6   -5 5 -4
Take me     home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please t
Take me home

ChorusX2
 -6  -5  -7
Take me down

-6 -5 -4
Oh yeah

 -4  -4  -4
Beat me down

-6    6   -5    6
Oh, won't you please 

 6   -6   -5 5 -4
Take me     home



I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please 
Take me home

I want to see
Boy, I'm gonna be mean
Oh, oh take me home

Chorus

I want to go
I want to know
Oh, won't you please 
Take me home

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