Composer: Dickey Lee Lipscomb      Down by the river that flows by the coal yards   Stands wooden houses with shutters torn down   There lives a girl everybody calls Patches   Patches my darling of Old Shanty town      We plan 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      Patches 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      Each night I cry as I think of that shanty   And pretty Patches there watchin’ the door   She doesn't know that I can't come to see her   Patches must think that I love her no more      I hear a neighbor tellin’ 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 Shanty Town      Patches 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