the song is from the 50s or 60s about a young man who takes a girl on a date after the date or dance he taes her home as he leaves he notice she left her sweater on the car seat he goes to the door of her house to return the sweater the father answers the door the young man says to the father your daughter left her sweater in my car I am returning it the father tells the young man my daughter is dead today is the anniversary of her death