Stay Down Here Where You Belong

"Stay Down Here Where You Belong"
Sheet music cover from the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Song
Released1914 (1914)
GenrePopular music
ComposerIrving Berlin
Audio sample
Stay Down Here Where You Belong recorded by Henry Burr (1915)
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"Stay Down Here Where You Belong" is a pacifist novelty song written by Irving Berlin in 1914, presumably in opposition to the Great War. The lyrics describe a conversation between the devil and his son, the devil exhorting him to "stay down here where you belong" because people on Earth do not know right from wrong.

Victor Records paired Burr's recording of the song with his rendition of "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier".

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