25 Stay Down Here Where You Belong

Well, and I were very friendly and Harry Ruby and I surprised him We sang one of his songs which he hated. It was a song from the first World War And the song went like this Down Down below Set the devil talking to his son Who wanted a girl?

He said it's too slow for me down here, and so the devil said listen man, listen to your dear Lord and fantastic, fantastic. You stay down here, the folks above you, they don't know right from wrong, to please their The kings they've all gone off to, but not a one of them knows what they're fighting for.

Way up above they say that I'm a devil and I'm bad. But the kings up there are bigger devils than your dad. They're breaking the hearts of mothers, making butches out of brothers. You'll find more hell out there than the rivers down here.

We were setting at a table and Ruby was at the piano and Berlin called me over. He says, if you ever have an urge to sing that song again, if you'll get in touch with me, I'll give you a hundred dollars not to sing it. But I still sing it.

Yes, I think it has four wonderful lines in there. And it applies to ages as much as it did. Forty years ago, they're breaking. Have you got a key in not using? They're breaking the hearts of mothers. They're making butchers out of brothers.

You'll find more hell up there than there is down here be