Last night at the dance I met laurie

So lovely and warm an angel of a girl

Last night I fell in love with laurie

Strange things happen in this world

As I walked her home

She said it was her birthday

I pulled her close and said

Will I see you anymore

Then suddenly she asked for my sweater

And said that she was very very cold

I kissed her goodnight

At her door and started home

Then thought about my sweater

And went right back instead

I knocked at her door and a man appeared

I told why I'd come then he said

You're wrong son

You weren't with my daughter

How can you be so cruel

To come to me this way

My laurie left this world on her birthday

She died a year ago today

A strange force drew me to the graveyard

I stood in the dark

I saw the shadows wave

And then I looked and saw my sweater

Lyin' there upon her grave

Strange things happen in this world