title: Patches
key: 60s
harp type: Chromatic
genre: Db
skill: Any

PATCHES chromatic
By: Barry Mann & Larry Kolber
Dickey Lee
Key: Db, D, Eb, E
Key: Db
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5* 5* -5* -6 7*
Down by the riv-er
7* -7* 8* -7* 7* -6
that flows by the coal yards.
5* 5* -5* -6 7*
Stand wood-en hous-es
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with shut-ters torn down
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There lives a girl
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Ev-‘ry-bod-y calls Patch-es
5* 5* -5* -6 7* 7* -6* -6 -5* 5*
Patch-es my dar-ling of Old Shan-ty town
Key: D
-5 -5 6 -6* -7 -7 -8
We planned to mar-ry when June
-9 -8 -7 -6*
brought the sum-mer
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I could-n’t wait to make Patch-es my bride
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Now I don’t see how that ev-er can hap-pen
-5 -5 -6* -5 -6* -7 7 -6* 6 -5
My folks say No, and my heart breaks in-side
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Patch-es oh what can I do
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I swear I’ll al-ways love you
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But a girl from that place
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will just bring me dis-grace
-6*-5 -5 -5 5* -5 6 -5
So my folks won’t let me love you
Key: Eb
-5* -5* -6 7 -7*-7* 8 -9* 8 -7* 7
Each night I cry as I think of that shan-ty
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And pret-ty Patch-es,
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they’re watch-ing the door
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She does-n’t know that
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I can’t come to see her
-5* -5* -6 7 -3* -7* 7* 7 -6 -5*
Patch-es must think that I love her no more
Key: E
6 6 -6* 7* -8 8* 10 8* 7* 7*
I hear a neigh-bor tell-in my fa-ther
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He says a girl name of Patch-es was found
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Float-ing face down in that
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dirt-y old riv-er
-4 6 6 -6* 7* -8
That flows by the coal yards
-8 -7 7* -6* 6
in Old Shan-ty Town
10 -10* 11*-10* -9*-9*9*-8
Patch-es oh what can I do
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I swear I’ll al-ways love you
6 -7 -7 -8 8*
It may not be right
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But I’ll join you to-night
6 6 6 -5* 6 -6* 6
Patch-es I’m com-ing to you