I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide
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
The sun behind the cloud just cast a crawling
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
Dover
He has been gone so long,
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when he left the snow was deep on the ground
And I have seen a spring and summer pass,
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and now the leaves are turning brown
At any time a tiny face will show itself as waiting,
it's almost over
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But I won't have a name to give it if
he doesn't hurry down from
Dover
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
My mama said I was a fool,
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
Dover
I loved him more than anything,
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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.
He couldn'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 alone,
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or he'll be coming down from
Dover
My body aches, the time is near,
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It's lonely in this place where I'm lying.
Our baby has been born,
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but something's wrong,
It's much too still, I hear no crying.
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
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he wasn't coming down from
Dover
From
Dover,
From
Dover