Dickie Lee's version of the "vanishing hitch-hiker" urban legend made it to #14 on the U.S. pop charts in the 1965.

Laurie (Strange Things Happen)

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?"
And 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 him why I'd come and 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 I saw my sweater
Lying there upon her grave.
Strange things happen in this world.