Patches (4-harp version)

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

PATCHES 4-harp version
By: Barry Mann & Larry Kolber
Dickey Lee
Key: Db, D, Eb, E

Key: Db

|-2”-2-36|

 4   4  -4   5  6
Down by the riv-er 
 6    -6   7  -6   6     5
that flows by the coal yards.
  4     4  -4   5  6
Stand wood-en hous-es 
 6    -6  -5    -6   6
with shut-ters torn down
  7    -8   7  -76
There lives a girl 
6   6  -6 -5  -6     6   5
Ev-‘ry-bod-y calls Patch-es
  4   4  -4  5   6   6  -5    5  -4  4
Patch-es my dar-ling of Old Shan-ty town

Key: D

4     4    -4  5  6   6    -6
We planned to mar-ry when June 
   7    -6   6   5
brought the sum-mer
4    4  -4    5  6   6     -6  -5 -6   6
I could-n't wait to make Patch-es my bride
 7 -8   7   -7-6 6    6  -66-5 -6   6   5
Now I don't see how that ev-er can hap-pen
4    4    5  4    5  6   -5     5    -4  4
My folks say No, and my heart breaks in-side
  7   8   8-8   -8  -7 -6 6
Patch-es   oh  what can I do
-6  7    7   7   6   6 -5  5
I swear I'll al-ways love you
 4  4  -5   -5    6   -6
But a girl from that place 
 -6   -6    6   4  -4    5
will just bring me dis-grace
5  4    4     4   -3  4   -4   4
So my folks won't let me love you

Key: Eb

 4     4  -4  5  6  6  -6   7   -6    6  5
Each night I cry as I think of that shan-ty
 4    4  -4   5   6
And pret-ty Patch-es, 
   6      -6  -5  -6    6
they’re watch-ing the door
 7   -8   7  -7-6  6
She does-n't know that 
6   -6   -5  -6  6   5
I can't come to see her
 4    4   -4    5    3   6  -5   5  -4   4
Patch-es must think that I love her no more

Key: E

4   4 -4   5    6   -6  7  -6 5   5
I hear a neigh-bor tell-in my fa-ther
4    4 -4   6    6  6    -6  -5 -5    6 
He says a girl name of Patch-es was found
 7    -8   7   -7-6  6   6
Float-ing face down in that 
-6 6 -5  6  6  5
dirt-y old riv-er
 3     4   4  -4   5     6
That flows by the coal yards 
6  -5   5   -4  4
in Old Shan-ty Town

  7   -8  8  -8  -7  -7-6 6
Patch-es oh what can  I  do
-6   7   7   7   6    6-5  5
I swear I'll al-ways love you
4  -5  -5  6   -6
It may not be right 
-6   -6    6   4  -4   5
But I'll join you to-night
  4   4   4  -3   4  -4  4
Patch-es I'm com-ing to you

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