Her two little feet would come rinning into our bedroom almost every night   Her soft little face would be wet from her tears   And her little heart pounding with fright   She'd hold out her arm then she'd climb in beside us   In a small voice we'd hear her remark   Mommie and daddy can I sleep here with you cause Jeannie's afraid of the dark   One day in the summer we took some flowers to place on some old family grave   Jeannie said mommie ain't it dark in the ground oh daddy I'd be so afraid   Then she looked up at her daddy and me   And said somethin' that broke both our hearts   She said when I die please don't bury me cause Jeannie's afraid of the dark   Jeannie was always afraid of the dark and we never could understand why   Cause we looked after Jeannie with the very best of care   Because Jeannie was our only child   Perhaps it was death that she was so afraid of   Cause it took her one dark stormy night   I think we always knew that we'd never see Jeannie grow up   Cause it seemed that she was destined to die   But on Jeannie's grave we've placed en eternal flame   That glows and never loses its spark   And on the darkest night there's always a light   Cause Jeannie's afraid of the dark our Jeannie's afraid of the dark