Patches
Dickie Lee
 

You'll need a "C" harp to start and a "Db" harp to end.  See below.

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| Down by the | river that | flows by the | coal yards, |
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| stand wooden | houses with | shutters torn | down. | There lives a |
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| gi r l ev'ry | body calls | Patches. | Patches my | darling of |
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| Old Shanty | town. |

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| We planned to | marry when | June brought the | summer. | I couldn't |
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| wait to make | Patches my | bride. | Now I don't | se e how that |
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| ev er can | happen. | My folks say | "No", and my | heart breaks in | side. |

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| Pat | ches, oh | what can I | do? | I | swear I'll | always love | you. But a |
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| girl from that | place would just | bring me dis | grace, s o  o | my folks won't |
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| let me love | you. |    Pull out the Db harp...

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| Each night I | cry as  I  I think of that | shan ty | and pretty | Patches there |
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| watching the | door. | She doesn't | know that I | can't come to | see her. |
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| Patch es must | think that I | love her no | more. |

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| I hear a | neighbor ah ah | tellin' my | father, | he says a | girl name o' |
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| Patches was | found, | floating face | down in that | dirty old | river |
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| that flows by the | coal yards in | Old Shanty | Town. |

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| Patch | es, oh | what can I | do? | I | swear I'll | always love | you. But it |
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| may not be | right, but I'll | join you to | night. Patch | es I  'm | coming to | you. |

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