Am
That old brown house is haunted
         F
Said the young boys in the road
          G
Who threw stones through faceless windows
       Am
As the sky filled up with snow
I watched them from a taxi
        F
And the driver said of course
     G
That one time late at night he'd seen
  Am
A young girl on the porch

       C
And it must have been a ghost he laughed
  F
I shivered in the cold
        G
And the snowflakes fell like ancient tears
   F        G      C
On South De cember Road

Am
Something in my heart remembered
F
Long forgotten sins
        G
As they echo through those empty rooms
    Am
And scatter in the wind
There's a branch that's barely hangin
       G
And it sways before the window where
     Am
Your bedroom used to be

      C
And I drove the old man's Plymouth
            F
Through the tired Midwestern snow
        G
And you met me on the corner down
   F        G      C
On South De cember Road

         Am
Now that drug store up on Main Street
         F
Has that sign above the door
             G
They've been satisfying customers
      Am
Since 1934
We drank cherry flavored cola's there
     F
When we were seventeen
         G
But that soda fountain's gone now
     Am
So I bought a magazine

      C
And I walked down toward the graveyard
       F
As the wind began to blow
      G
and I stumbled across the headstone
       F      G      Am
Nearly buried in the snow
         C
And your face filled up my memory
      F
And a phantom filled my soul
         G
Like the cracks that filled the sidewalk down
   F        G      Am   F G Am
On South De cember Road