Patches:Big John Khatt And The Highland Blues Band.
(A top 10 for Dickey Lee on SMASH Records in 1962.)
Recorded live (with permission) in Metz, France,
in 1962. Almost every gig we got a dozen or more requests
for this Teen Angster.)

INTRO: G#7

#1.
C#                     F#           C#
Down by the river that flows by the coalyards..
C#                       F#            G#
stand wooden houses with shutters torn down.
C#            Fm        F#          C#
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches..
C#                      G#7       C#     A7
Patches, my darling, of old Shantytown.

#2.
D                        G                D
We planned to marry when June brought the summer..
D                       G          A
I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride.
D            F#m          G        D
Now, I don't see how that ever can happen..
D                        A7           D
my folks say, no, and my heart breaks inside.

CHORUS:
D    F#        G          D  
Pat..ches, oh, what can I do?
G             D
I swear I'll always love you.
      G                              D           Bm
But a girl from that place will just bring me disgrace..
    D              A7          D    Bb7
so, my folks won't let me love you.

#3.
D#                    G#            D#
Each night I cry as I think of that shanty..
D#                       G#           A#
and pretty Patches there watching the door.
D#          Gm          G#            D#
She doesn't know that I can't come to see her..
D#                        A#7         D#    B7
Patches must think that I love her no more.
 
#4.      
E        G#m      A          E
I hear a neighbor telling my father..
E         G#m          A           B
He says a girl name of Patches was found..
E             G#           A         E
floating face down in that dirty old river..
E                 G#m          A   B      E
that flows by the coalyards in old Shanty Town.

OUTRO:
E    G#        A          E
Pat..ches, oh, what can I do?
A             E
I swear I'll always love you.
   A                         E          C#m
It may not be right but I'll join you tonight..
E            B         E
Patches, I'm comin' to you.


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.