Patches:Dickey Lee.
#6 on BB Hot 100 on SMASH Records
in 1962.
INTRO:
#1.
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.
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:
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.
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.
#4.
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.
OUTRO:
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.