Tonart: F minor
Verse 1
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I remember
it
all very well lookin' back
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It was the summer I turned eighteen
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We lived in a one room, rundown shack
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On the outskirts of New
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Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
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To say the least we were hard pressed
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Then Mama spent every
last penny we had
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To buy me a dancin' dress
Verse 2
and curled my hair
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And she painted my eyes
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and lips then I stepped into
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A satin dancin' dress that had a
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split on the side clean up
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It was red velvet trim and it
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
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There stood a wo man where a
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half grown kid had stood
Verse 3
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She said here's your one chance
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Fancy don't let me down
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Here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
Verse 4
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Mama dabbled a little bit
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of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
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Then I saw the tears wellin' up
When she started to speak
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She looked at a pitiful shack
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And then she looked at me
and took a ragged breath
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She said your Pa's run off and
I'm real sick
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And the baby's gonna starve to death
Verse 5
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She handed me a heart shaped
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"To thine own self be true"
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And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl across
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The toe of my high heeled shoe
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It soun ded like somebody
else that was talkin'
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Askin' Mama what do I do
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She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
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And they'll be nice to you
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She said here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
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Here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
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Lord forgive me for what I do,
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Now don't let me down you better
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start movin' up town
Verse 6
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Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
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The night I left that rickety shack
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The welfare people came
and took the baby
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Mama died and I ain't been back
Verse 7
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But the wheels of fate had
started to turn
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And for me there was no way out
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And it wasn't very long 'till I knew exactly
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What my Mama'd been talkin' about
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I knew what I had to do but I made
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myself this solemn vow
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That I's gonna be a lady someday
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Though I didn't know when or how
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I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
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With my head hung down in shame you know
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I might have been born
just plain white trash
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But Fancy was my name
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Here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
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Here's your one chance
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Fancy don't let me down
Verse 10
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It wasn't long after that benevolent man
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Took me off the street
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And one week later I was pourin' his tea
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In a five room hotel suite
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a king, congressman
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And an occasional aristocrat
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Then I got me a Georgia mansion
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In an elegant New York townhouse flat
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And I ain't done bad
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Verse 12
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Now in this world there's a lot
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of self- righteous hypocrites
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That would call me bad
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And criticize Mama for turning me out
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No matter how little we had
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But though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
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For nigh on fifteen years
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I can still hear the desperation
in my poor
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Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
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here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
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Here's your one chance Fancy
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Lord, for give me for what I do
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But if you want out well
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You Mama's gonna help you uptown
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did
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Verse 16
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And you pay your Mama good mind
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