G'day, Mr. Thebes, Get out the hankies. How about 'Down from Dover' - a duet by Nancy Sinatra (sigh) and Lee Hazlewood - RIP - (brilliant producer & songwriter, debatable singer in the Cohenesque way)
Down from Dover - written by Dolly Parton - sung by Nancy (sigh) Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Nancy (sigh)
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.
Lee
I've been gone so long, when I left the snow was deep upon the ground.
And she has seen a spring and summer coming 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.
Nancy (sigh)
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.
Lee
She loved me more than anything; she could not refuse me when I needed her.
She was the only one I'd loved and she did not believe that I was usin' her.
Nancy (sigh)
He couldn't leave me here like this, I know it can't be so, it can't be over.
Lee
I wouldn't make her go through this alone, although I'll be coming down from Dover.
Nancy (sigh)
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 tellin' me he wasn't coming down from Dover.
Slainte, Hamish