Key: G major•
Verse 1
D
C
F
D
C
D
I know
this dress
I'm wearing
C
G
doesn't hide the secret I've
D
C
tried concealing
G
D
When he left he promised me
G
D
by the time it was revealing
just cast a crawling shadow
D
C
over the fields of clover
C
G
I wish that he would hurry
I've been gone so long
G
D
deep upon the ground
She has seen the spring and
G
D
now the leaves are turning brown.
But she won't have a name to give it,
C
G
D
if I don't hurry down from Dover.
My folks weren't understanding
G
D
C
they sent me from the home place.
C
G
D
he'd be ashamed to ever show his face.
C
D
That everything would be alright,
C
G
but soon you would be com
D
Eb
ing down from Dover
She loved me more than anything,
Db
Ab
she could not refuse me
She was the only one I loved
Db
Ab
Eb
and she did not believe that I was using her.
I wouldn't make her go through this alone,
Db
Ab
Eb
though I'll be coming down from Dover
My body aches, the time is here,
Db
Ab
Eb
it's lonely in this place where I'm lying
Our baby has been born,
Ab
Eb
it's much too still, I hear no cryin'
Db
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd
Db
Eb
And dying was a way of telling me
Db
Ab
he wasn't coming down
Thank you.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD C F G Eb...
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