Down From Dover

Down From Dover - Spell

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 folks weren't understanding

When they found out they sent me

From the home place

My daddy said if folks found out

He'd be ashamed to ever show his face

My mamma said I was a fool and

She did not believe it when I told her

That everything would be all right

'Cause soon he would be coming down from dover

I loved him more than anything and

She could not refuse him when I needed her

She was the only one I'd loved and

She 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

I wouldn't make me go through this so long

Oh I'll be coming down from dover

My body aches the time is here it's lonely

In this place where I'm 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

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