A popular song from 1914. Words and Music by Irving Berlin. Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle. Copyright ©20 Oct 1914. Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
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Lyrics
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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
‘Way up above they say
That I’m the 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
Performance
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