Cemetery Road

Cemetery Road
(Happy Halloween)

Don't walk home by the cemetery
Their mother would always scold
When, after school, they visited friends
Everyday they had been told

But one evening John said to Jimmy
Let's take Cemetery Road
Jim said, "John, you know Mom won't like it."
John told Jim he was a toad

John said "Jim, now that we are older
We won't get a bad case of the creeps
Mom only wanted to protect us
From not being able to sleep

But Jimmy wouldn't listen to him,
And the sky was growing black
So the boys went their separate ways,
But Jim hoped John would turn back

Although Jimmy's route was the longer,
Jim was the one to arrive
Poor Mother was worried and frightened
Sure that John hadn't survived
                                                                                                                                                           
"Oh why had Johnny disobeyed her?"
We heard his mother bemoan.
When the town searched the cemetery
John's name was on a headstone.

At night you can hear poor John wailing
Many of the townsfolk say,
"If you walk by the cemetery,
Do it by the light of day."