Song: “Patches” by Charlie Pride
The handle of the song is “Patches, I’m depending on you”. Patches is one of the most positive songs I have heard and one year in my music classes, we would sing it just before the bell would ring to leave. I had asked the school secretary to write down the words in short hand and transcribe it for me to run off copies. I was very grateful and my students were so happy.
There was one male student in particular who cherished the song, going into all manner of ecstasy when I played it and, unfortunately, at the end of the term for his class, I was not able to find my record to play it for the incoming group. It was a 45 recording as I remember. I never found out what happened to it. The little boy’s name was Tony. After all these years, I am surprised I still remember his name. This was around 1973 and I can still see Tony now standing out amongst all the other students enjoying the music in his own little world. He was a skinny little rascal with dark hair in seventh grade.
I have noticed there is no record of Patches on Wikipedia and I only mention the country and western ballade due to the fact the Bailout America vote is going back to the house for a vote and for some reason, I keep humming the song, reminiscing how much I enjoyed the good clean optimism of it. Sure nuff wish I could play it for the house members to let them know how I fell about their individual vote for the Bailout America Bill and wanting them to do the right thing. “Patches, I’m depending on you……”
As always,
BB
P.S. By the way, after the vote tonight, I thought the heavens were going to open up and other good things. What happened? Did I miss something?
There was one male student in particular who cherished the song, going into all manner of ecstasy when I played it and, unfortunately, at the end of the term for his class, I was not able to find my record to play it for the incoming group. It was a 45 recording as I remember. I never found out what happened to it. The little boy’s name was Tony. After all these years, I am surprised I still remember his name. This was around 1973 and I can still see Tony now standing out amongst all the other students enjoying the music in his own little world. He was a skinny little rascal with dark hair in seventh grade.
I have noticed there is no record of Patches on Wikipedia and I only mention the country and western ballade due to the fact the Bailout America vote is going back to the house for a vote and for some reason, I keep humming the song, reminiscing how much I enjoyed the good clean optimism of it. Sure nuff wish I could play it for the house members to let them know how I fell about their individual vote for the Bailout America Bill and wanting them to do the right thing. “Patches, I’m depending on you……”
As always,
BB
P.S. By the way, after the vote tonight, I thought the heavens were going to open up and other good things. What happened? Did I miss something?
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