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

I 'd been gone so long

When I left

The snow was deep upon the ground

And she have seen a spring

And summer come

And now the leaves are turning brown

And any time a tiny face

Will show itself

Cause 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 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

That everything'd be alright

Cause soon he'll be coming down from Dover

She love me more than anyting

She could not refuse me

When I needed her

She was the only one I'd loved

And she did not believe that

I was using her

He couldn't leave me here like this

So know it can't be so it can't be over

I wouldn't make her go through this so long

I'll be coming down from Dover

My body aches the time is here

It's lonely in this place where I'm a lyin'

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 her way

Of telling me he wasn't coming down from Dover