Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_patches_art-hickmans-orchestra-roberts-and-callahan_gbia0023958b
https://archive.org/details/78_patches_gene-rodemichs-orchestra-roberts_gbia0038128a
https://archive.org/details/78_patches_joseph-c.-smiths-orchestra-lee-s.-roberts-hugo-frey-and-frank-banta_gbia0013406b
https://archive.org/details/78_patches_nora-bayes-roberts_gbia0016754b
Publication Date
1919
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
This morning at dawning I had a dream,
The queerest dream, because it seemed
The wild ways of child days
Came to me then,
And I was just a boy again.
[Chorus]
Wearing patches,
A barefoot boy in patches,
There is no other dream that matches,
And yet it can’t come true!
I’d give up ev’ry other joy
To be once more that barefoot boy
A wearing patches, patches,
As I used to do!
[Verse 2]
I’d give all to live all
Those days one more,
Those days of yore, that now are o’er;
I yearn to return to Those scenes again,
I’d gladly trade the now for then.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Callahan, J. Will and Roberts, Lee S., "Patches" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1179.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1179
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Patches
A Fox-Trot Song
Lyric by J. Will Callahan
Music by Lee S. Roberts
New York: G. Schirmer (1919)
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