Down from Dover

[Verse 1: Nancy Sinatra]

I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't

Hide the secret I've 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 cast

A crawling shadow o'er the fields of clover

And time is running out for me

I wish that he would hurry down from Dover

[Verse 2: Lee Hazlewood]

I've been gone so long, when I left

The snow was deep upon the ground

And she has seen the spring and summer come

And now the leaves are turning brown

At any time a tiny face will show itself

The waiting's almost over

But she won't have a name to give it

If I don't hurry down from Dover

[Verse 3: Nancy Sinatra]

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 momma said I was a fool

She did not believe it when I told her

That everything would be all right

'Cause soon he would be coming down from Dover

[Verse 4: Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra]

She loved me more than anything

She could not refuse me when I needed her

She was the only one I loved

And she did not believe that I was using her

He couldn't leave me here like this

Oh no, it can't be so, it can't be over

I wouldn't make her go through this alone

No, I'll be coming down from Dover

[Verse 5: Nancy Sinatra]

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 father's arms to hold her

And dying was her way of telling me

He wasn't coming down from Dover