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I was reading the singers forum and found a topic about crying... anyways, someone mentioned a song called "Patches". I remember this song from when I was young and it brought back some memories, but I am pretty sure the rendition I heard was not clarence carter. I am now on a mission to find the singer of the song I heard. I can tell you it was sort of country sounding, and I was thinking Johny Cash maybe? Can anyone help me to find this singer or song? Thanks a ton!

Patches
Dickie Lee

 

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 will 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 watching 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 said a girl name of Patches was found

Floating face down 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.

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I love the song and was singing thru the lyric. I try sing it tonite; I know I have the karaoke version somewhere.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

PM me, I have both versions, Dickey Lee and Clarence Carter's Patches.

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Song Title Artist Name

I've Gotta Get A Message To You       Bee Gees
I'm Gonna Be Strong                        Gene Pitney
Patches                                           Dickey Lee
Tracy                                               The Cuff Links
Cry To Me                                        Freddie Scott
Summertime                                     Billy Stewart
Lonely Teenager                                Dion
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa            Gene Pitney
To Love Somebody                            Bee Gees
It's Over                                           Roy Orbison
Honey                                               Bobby Goldsboro
Sunny                                               Bobby Hebb
Lonely Street                                     Andy Williams
A Wonder Like You                             Ricky Nelson
Laurie (Strange Things Happen)           Dickey Lee
Leader Of The Pack                            The Shangri-Las

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It is the song by clarence carter those lyrics, but sung by a different artist. So I am looking for the other artists who sing that song. Thank you for the responses.

Thanks to Bigdog on a PM I recieved:
Clarence Carter Patches (not the lyrics from Dickie Lee) the patches in Carter's song is about a young black man on hard times.
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Clarence Carter did a remake of "Chairmen of the Board's" Patches a few years later..  "Patches I'm depending on you" ?   Maybe you heard Chairmen of the Board the original 60's rendition..

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Here's everything you might wish to know about the Song, Blackrose..  Carter recorder several renditions, however a few weren't as good as others in the opinions of others...

Song: Patches ~~ 1970 ~~ 3:10
Artist: Clarence Carter
LP/CD: Patches ~~ Atlantic ~~ 1970
Composers: Ronald Dunbar~General Johnson

Also recorded by: Chairmen Of The Board


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I was born and raised down in Alabama
On a farm way back up in the woods
I was so raggedy, folks used call me, “Patches”
Papa used to tease me ‘bout it
Of course deep down inside he was hurt
‘Cause he’d done all he could

My papa was a great ol’ man
I can see him with a shovel in his hand
See, education he never had
But he did wonders when the time got bad
The little money from the crops he raised
Barely paid the bills we made

Oh, life it kicked him down to the ground
When he tried to get up, life would kick him back down
One day papa called me to his dyin’ bed
Put his hands on my shoulders and in tears he said

He said, “Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it’s all left up to you”

Two days later papa passed away
And I became a man that day
So I told mama I was gonna quit school
But she said that was daddy’s strictest rule

So every morning ‘fore I went to school
I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too

Sometimes I felt that I couldn’t go on
I wanted to leave, just run away from home
But I would remember what my daddy said
With tears in his eyes on his dyin’ bed

He said, “Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
I tried to do my best
It’s up to you to do the rest”

But then one day a strong rain came
And washed all the crops away
And at the age of 13
I thought I was carryin’ the weight of the whole world on my shoulders
And you know mama knew what I was going through

‘Cause every day I had to work the fields
‘Cause that’s the only way we got our meals
You see, I was the oldest of the family
And everybody else depended on me
Every night I heard my mama pray
Lord, give him strength to face another day

4 years have passed and all the kids have grown
The angels took mama to a brand new home
God knows people, I shed tears
But my daddy’s voice kept me through the years

Sayin’, “Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it’s all left up to you”

I can still hear papa when he said, “Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
I tried to do my best
It’s up to you to do the rest”

I can still hear papa when he said, “Patches
I’m dependin’ on you, son
To pull the family through”

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Also this is interesting..

I found a site that said Carter recorded several renditions of the song, the LP version was the best, his 45 version was done in mono, and is muddier sounding, with poorer quality on the instruments.. So depending on even "HIS" renditions, they might not sound identical... A few were discussing that they were looking for the song, found different renditions of Clarence Carters recordings, and some were horrible sounding, but the LP version was the best.  Incidently, "Chairmen of the Board",  wasn't Frank Sinatra with them ?  Count Basie group ???????

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

I found the song, the song I was looking for was Patches by Alabama. The best version I think!

Alabama also did a rendition of the song ??   Hmmm... I didn't know that.

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Yes and it is the best version I think.