Stay Down Here Where You Belong

Irving Berlin

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    [1st verse:]
    Down below
    Down Below
    Sat the devil talking to his son
    Who wanted to go
    Up above
    Up above
    He cried, "It's getting too warm for me down here and so
    I'm going up on Earth where I can have a little fun
    The Devil simply shook his head and answered his son

    [Refrain:]
    Stay down here where you belong
    The folks who live above you don't know right from wrong

    To please their kings they've all gone out to war
    And not a one of them knows what he's fighting for

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    'Way up above they say that I'm a Devil and I'm bad
    Kings up there are bigger devils than your dad

    They're breaking the hearts of mothers
    Making butchers out of brothers
    You'll find more hell up there than there is down below

    [2nd verse:]
    "Kings up there
    They don't care
    For the mothers who must stay at home
    Their sorrows to bear
    Stay at home
    Don't you roam
    Although it's warm down below, you'll find it's warmer up there
    If e'er you went up there, my son, I know you'd be surprised
    You'd find a lot of people are not civilized"

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    Composition: Irving Berlin

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