Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Jeannie’s Afraid of the Dark” — Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton (1968)

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”… What the freakin’ what… Fear of the dark taps into the primal essence of terror, and if the billion-dollar-a-year nightlight industry doesn’t convince…