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