Down from Dover

I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I have tried concealing

When he left he promised me he'd be back by the time it was revealing

The sun behind a cloud just casts the crawling shadow

O'er the fields of clover

And time is running out for me I wish that he would hurry down from

Dover

He's been gone so long when he left the snow was deep upon the ground

And I have seen a spring and summer pass and now

The leaves are turning brown

And any time a tiny face will show itself cause waiting's almost over

But I won't have a name to give it if he doesn't hurry down from

Dover

From Dover

My folks weren't understanding when they found out they sent me from the homeplace

My daddy said if folks found out he'd be ashamed to ever show his face

My mama said I was a fool and she did not believe

It when I told her

Mama everything's gonna be alright cause soon he'll be coming down

From Dover

From Dover

I loved him more than anything and I could not refuse him when he needed

Me

He was the only one I'd loved and I just can't believe that he was

Using me

He wouldn't leave me here like this I know it can't be so it can't

Be over

He wouldn't make me go through this so long he'll be coming down from Dover

My body aches the time is here it's lonely in this place where

I'm a 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

So dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming down from Dover

From Dover from Dover from Dover from Dover