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.