What the Devil told his son about rulers on Earth

The song was supposedly written by Irving Berlin in 1914.  I found it at the War Is A Crime blog.

Stay Down Here Where You Belong

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:

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 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.

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.