Footsteps A knock Then next to the bed Does my frightened young daughter appear, and say I m scared, Papa A nightmare woke me up and I can t sleep Could I sleep with Mama and you? Crawl in my darling It s nice and warm, and there s plenty of room And that dream won t be harming you here And so we sleep And hold back the demons and ghosts till the morning arrives They seem to flee more easily Faced with a foe like the three of us there Side by side Of course my darling Just sqeeze in between us, here s a pillow for you And don t worry now darling, don t fear The mother we run to, the lover we cling to The bedside we seek in the night It s a walk down the hall that we make when we re small And we make for the rest of our lives And at dawn, with our clothes We put on our best brave faces and go our separate ways And hold fast to the hope That at the day s end, we can put them away again And hear someone say Crawl in my darling It s nice and warm and there s plenty of room And bad dreams won t be harming you here Crawl in my darling Just squeeze in between us, here s a pillow for you And don t worry now, darling, don t fear