After school the kids in her neighborhood went past the blue house
Straight to the woods
Became pirates, knights, and princesses
Making worlds only six year olds could
But her daddy never let her walk behind that house
Said "it is dangerous for us"
There must be big monsters, bears, and spiders
That can kill you with just one bite
Screaming witches with silver hair howling into the night
She didn't know that what could kill her wasn't in that haunted hole
It was a white man, big gun, blue house
Dixie flag on his pole, now she knows what daddy knows
"It's not fair that I can't play there
Just like all of my friends do each day"
She cried to daddy when he told her "no baby girl"
And then just walked away
She can only imagine now how much it hurt to hide his fear
That his precious daughter could be a target around here
Because there's big monsters, bears, and spiders
That can kill you with one bite
Screaming witches with silver hair, vampires roaming the night
She didn't know that what could kill her wasn't in that haunted hole
It was a white man, big gun, blue house
Dixie flag on his pole, now she knows what daddy knows
ABCs, 123s
Daddy taught her everything
He said there's big monsters, bears, and spiders
That can kill you with one bite
Screaming witches with silver hair, growing strange fruit in the night
She didn't know that what could kill her wasn't in that haunted hole
It was a white man, a big gun, blue house
Dixie flag on his pole, now she knows what daddy knows
Now she knows what daddy knows
Now she knows what daddy knows