| Down below, down below
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| Caught the devil talking to his son
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| Who wanted to go up above, up above
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| He cried, «It's getting to warm for me down here and so
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| I’m going up to Earth where I can have a little fun.»
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| The devil slowly smiled and then he answered his son
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| «Stay down here where you belong
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| The folks who live above you don’t know right from wrong
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| To please their king, they’ve all gone out to war
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| And not 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
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| Kings up there are bigger devils than your dad
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| Breaking the hearts of mothers, making butchers of their brothers
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| You’ll find more heat up there than there is down below»
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| «Kings up there, they don’t care
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| For the mothers who must stay at home, their troubles to bear
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| Stay at home, don’t you roam
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| Although it’s warm down here, it’s warmer up there
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| If you go way up there, my son, I know you’ll be surprised
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| You’ll find a lot of people who are not civilized» |