Down From Dover chords by Sally Timms, Jon Langford

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Verse 1
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I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide
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the secret I have tried concealing
When he left he promised me that he'd be
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back by the time it was revealing
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The sun behind the cloud just cast a crawling
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shadow over the fields of clover
And time is running out for me,
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I wish that he       would hurry down from
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Dover
He has been gone so long,
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A 
when he left the snow was deep on the ground
G 
And I have seen a spring and summer pass,
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A 
and      now the leaves are turning brown
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At any time a tiny face will show itself as waiting,
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it's almost over
Asus4 
But I won't have a name to give it if
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he doesn't hurry down from
Dover
G 
My folks weren't understanding when they found
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out they     sent me from the home place
My daddy said if folks found out he'd
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be ashamed to ever show his face
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My mama said I was a fool,
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and she did not believe it when I told her
That everything would be alright,
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cause soon he would be coming down from
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Dover
I loved him more than anything,
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A 
and I  could not      refuse him when he needed me.
He was the only one I'd loved,
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and I just can't    believe that he was using me.
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He couldn't leave me here like this,
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I know it can't be so, it can't be over
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He wouldn't make me go through this alone,
Asus4 
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A 
or he'll be coming down from
Dover
My body aches, the time is near,
Asus4 
A 
It's lonely in this place    where I'm lying.
Our baby has been born,
Asus4 
but something's wrong,
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It's much too still, I hear no crying.
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I guess in some strange way she knew she'd
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never have a father's arms to hold her
And dying was her way of telling me
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A 
he       wasn't coming down from
Dover
From
Dover,
From
Dover