Patches:Dickey Lee.
#6 in 1962.
***In the original there are 4 key changes.
I marked them as capo/barre 1st fret, etc.***
#1.(Capo/barre 1st fret. Key C#)
Down by the river that flows by the coal yards,
stand wooden houses with shutters torn down.
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches.
Patches my darling of old Shanty town.
#2. (Capo/barre 2nd fret. Key D)
We planned to marry when June brought the summer.
I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride.
Now I don't see how that ever can happen..
My folks say no, and my heart breaks inside.
CHORUS:#1.
Pat..ches, oh, what can I do? I swear I'll always love you.
But a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace,
so my folks won't let me love you.
#3. (Capo/barre 3rd fret. Key D#)
Each night I cry, as I think of that shanty.
And pretty patches there watching the door.
She doesn't know that I can't come to see her..
Patches must think, that I love her no more.
CHORUS:#1.
#4. (Capo/barre 4th fret. Key E)
I hear a neighbor telling my father..
He says a girl name of Patches was found,
floating face down in that dirty old river,
that flows by the coal yards in old Shan..ty town.
CHORUS:#2.(x2)
Pat..ches, oh, what can I do? I swear I'll always love you.
It may not be right but I'll join you tonight..
Patches I'm coming to you.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.