Down From Dover

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 understand when they found out they sent me from the home place
My daddy said if folks found out, that 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 will 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

Oh God, you took my baby
Watching me, he' was not going back
He can't go home with mummy and daddy
You took him, so can't you just take me too
You can do it now