this trust 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 the clouds has cast a crawling
shadow over the fields of clover
And time is running out for me,
I wish that he would hurry down from
And I've been gone so long that when I left the
snow was deep upon the ground
But she won't have a name to give it
If I don't hurry down from
My folks weren't understanding when they
found out they sent me from the home place
My daddy said folks found out he'd
be ashamed to ever show his face
My mama said I was a fool,
she did not believe when I told her
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 can'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,
you know I'll be coming down from
My body aches, the time is here,
it's lonely in this place where I'm laying
Our baby has been born, but something's wrong,
it's much too still, I hear them crying
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd
never have fathers or aunts to follow her
And dying was her way of telling me you
weren't com ing down from
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