Down From Dover

(Dolly Parton)



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 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.



My parents didn't understanding

When they found out they sent me from the home place

My daddy said if folks found out

He would be ashamed to ever show his face.



My mother said I was a fool

And she did not believe me when I told her

But everything would be all right

'Cause soon he would be coming down from Dover.



I loved him more than anything

And I could not refuse him when he needed me

He was the only man I'd loved

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 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 lying

Our baby has been born 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 daddy's arms to hold her

And dying was her way of telling me

He wasn't coming down from Dover...