I know
this dress
I'm wearing
doesn't hide the secret I've
tried concealing
When he left he promised me
that he'd be back
by the time it was revealing
The sun behind the clouds
just cast a crawling shadow
over the fields of clover
And time is running out for me
I wish that he would hurry
down from Dover
I've been gone so long
when I left the snow as
deep upon the ground
She has seen the spring and
summer coming,
now the leaves are turning brown.
At any time a tiny face will show itself,
the waiting's almost over.
But she won't have a name to give it,
if I don't hurry down from Dover.
My folks weren't understanding
when they found out
they sent me from the home place.
My daddy said if folks found out
he'd be ashamed to ever show his face.
My momma said I was a fool,
she did not believe it when I told her
That everything would be alright,
but soon you would be com
ing down from Dover
She loved me more than anything,
she could not refuse me
when I needed her.
She was the only one I loved
and she did not believe that I was using her.
He couldn't leave me here like this,
oh no, it can't be so, it can't be over
I wouldn't make her go through this alone,
though I'll be coming down from Dover
My body aches, the time is here,
it's lonely in this place where I'm lying
Our baby has been born,
but something's wrong,
it's much too still, I hear no cryin'
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd
never have a father's arms to hold her
And dying was a way of telling me
he wasn't coming down
from Dover
Thank you.