i know this dress i m wearing doesn t hide the secret i ve tried concealing when he left he promised me 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 at 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 from dover 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 she did not believe it when i told her momma everything s gonna be all right cause soon he would be coming down from dover i found a place to stay out on a farm takin care of that old lady she never asked me nuthin so i never talked to her about my baby i sent a messgae to my mom with a name and address of ms ol grover and to make sure he got that information when he came down from dover i loved him more than anything and i could not refuse him when he needed me he was the only one i d loved and i just can t believe that he was usin me he wouldn 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 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 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 so dying was her way of tellin me he wasn t coming down from dover from dover from dover down from dover