The Unhappiness about how kids don't go trick or treating here anymore

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They banned trick or treating around here/because they said it's more dangerous than/it used to be./But how is it more dangerous?/A kid used to leave the house/to go trick or treating/and come back when he got done./ / Now you drive to the house,/and put a telephone in the kid's hand/and watch him walk up to the door/with a telephone in his hand,/and how is it more dangerous than it used to be?