The chords to that song I wrote when I first moved to L.A., when I didn't know me anybody and was kinda feeling a little down.
Duff - Hit Parader March 1988

#34 on Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, December, 2003
#19 on U.K.'s Total Guitar magazine "100 Greatest Riffs Ever", as voted by the readers. May 2004
#3 on Total Guitar's "Best Guitar Solos Of All Time" poll, March 2006.

Lyrics:

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
Evrybody'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 ya 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

Video info:

Paradise City 1988
Director: Nigel Dick

Shot on August 15th and 16th, 1988
at Giants Stadium, New Jersey.
August 20th 1988
at Castle Donington, England

Release info:

Released: March 18, 1989 (UK)

UK Chart peak: 6
US Chart peak: 5 (The Billboard Hot 100)

GEF 50 7" (UK)
Paradise City / Used To Love Her

GEF 50P Gun shaped clear or
white picture disc with sticker
Paradise City / Used To Love Her

GEF 50X 7" with
holster pack for picture disc
Paradise City / Used To Love Her

GEF 50T 12"
Paradise City / Used To Love Her /
Anything Goes

GEF 50CD 3" CD
Paradise City / Used To Love Her /
Anything Goes / Sweet Child O' Mine

9275 794 Cassette
Paradise City / Used To Love Her /
Anything Goes

"Paradise City", "Anything Goes" and "Sweet Child O' Mine"
from "Appetite For Destruction".
"Used To Love Her" from "GN'R Lies".

January 1989 (USA)
7-27570 7"
Paradise City / Move To The City