Are you afraid of the dark, my baby? I said mother, oh mother I am Lay here as still as you can my baby And I'll fill up your eyelids with sand I cried myself to sleep While the monsters were quietly creeping Through the cracks in my door Plundering sheets for to dream in What if our house catches fire tonight? She says, "baby, oh baby it won't" How do you know so much more than I do? She says, "baby, oh baby I don't" I cried myself to sleep While the flames melt my whole into hollow And in the snow white morning Shoveling ash from my pillow What if I fall asleep tonight And I know not the light of the morning? With robbers and demons aflight Oh, lying awake I am listening