Tonart: F minor
Verse 1
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Dm
Bm
Em
Bm
I remember
it
all very well lookin' back
C#m
A
It was the summer I turned eighteen
E
Em
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
G
On the outskirts of New
Bm
Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
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A
To say the least we were hard pressed
last penny we had
Em
G
To buy me a dancin' dress
Verse 2
and curled my hair
E
And she painted my eyes
B
Bm
and lips then I stepped into
B
A satin dancin' dress that had a
E
B
split on the side clean up
E
It was red velvet trim and it
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
B
There stood a wo man where a
E
Bm
half grown kid had stood
Verse 3
G
She said here's your one chance
A
Bm
Fancy don't let me down
D
E
Here's your one chance Fancy
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B
Bm
don't let me down
Verse 4
Bm
Mama dabbled a little bit
And she kissed my cheek
E
Then I saw the tears wellin' up
When she started to speak
Bm
She looked at a pitiful shack
A
And then she looked at me
and took a ragged breath
E
She said your Pa's run off and
I'm real sick
G
And the baby's gonna starve to death
Verse 5
Bm
She handed me a heart shaped
A
"To thine own self be true"
E
And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl across
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The toe of my high heeled shoe
Bm
It sounded like somebody
else that was talkin'
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G#m
Askin' Mama what do I do
E
She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
F#
And they'll be nice to you
G
A
She said here's your one chance Fancy
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Bm
don't let me down
D
E
Here's your one chance Fancy
B
Bm
don't let me down
D
E
Lord forgive me for what I do,
G
F#
Now don't let me down you better
B
Bm
start movin' up town
Verse 6
B
Bm
B
Bm
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
B
A
The night I left that rickety shack
E
The welfare people came
and took the baby
G
Mama died and I ain't been back
Verse 7
Bm
But the wheels of fate had
started to turn
A
And for me there was no way out
E
And it wasn't very long 'till I knew exactly
A
G
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
Verse 8
Bm
I knew what I had to do but I made
E
That I's gonna be a lady someday
G
Though I didn't know when or how
Bm
B
I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
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G#m
With my head hung down in shame you know
just plain white trash
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G
But Fancy was my name
Verse 9
G
A
Here's your one chance Fancy
E
Bm
Fancy don't let me down
Verse 10
C
G
It wasn't long after that benevolent man
D#
G
Took me off the street
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G
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
C
In a five room hotel suite
Verse 11
a king, congressman
C
And an occasional aristocrat
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A#
Eb
G
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
Eb
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
Cm
And I ain't done bad
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F
Verse 12
Cm
C
Now in this world there's a lot
F
of self- righteous hypocrites
Cm
That would call me bad
C
And criticize Mama for turning me out
F
C
No matter how little we had
Verse 13
C
But though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
E
Am
For nigh on fifteen years
F
I can still hear the desperation
in my poor
G
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
Verse 14
Ab
Bb
here's your one chance Fancy
C
Cm
don't let me down
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F
Here's your one chance Fancy
Cm
Eb
F
Lord, for give me for what I do
Ab
But if you want out well
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Now don't let me down
G
C
You Mama's gonna help you uptown
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I
Verse 15
Cm
F
did
C
Cm
C
Verse 16
Ab
And you pay your Mama good mind
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