Life Doesn't Frighten Me

                                                      by Maya Angelou

Shadows on the wall                                                               Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

Noises down the hall                                                              

Life doesn't frighten me at all                                                  Tough guys fight

                                                                                                All alone at night       

Bad dogs barking loud                                                           Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

Big ghosts in a cloud

Life doesn't frighten me at all                                                  Panthers in the park

                                                                                                Strangers in the dark

Mean old Mother Goose                                                         No, they don’t frighten me at all.

Lions on the loose

They don't frighten me at all                                                    That new classroom where

                                                                                                Boys all pull my hair

Dragons breathing flame                                                        (Kissy little girls

On my counterpane                                                                 With their hair all in curls)

That doesn't frighten me at all.                                                            They don’t frighten me at all.

I go boo                                                                                  Don’t show me frogs and snakes

Make them shoo                                                                      And listen for my screams,

I make fun                                                                                If I’m afraid at all

Way they run                                                                           It’s only in my dreams.

I won't cry

So they fly                                                                               I’ve got magic a charm

I just smile                                                                               That I keep up my sleeve

They go wild                                                                            I can walk the ocean floor

                                                                                   

And never have to breathe.

Life doesn’t frighten me at all

Not at all

Not at all.

Life doesn’t frighten me at all.