Tonart: F minor
Verse 1
G#m
Bm
G#m
C#m
G#m
I remember
it
all very well lookin' back
A#m
F#
It was the summer I turned eighteen
C#
C#m
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
E
On the outskirts of New
G#m
Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
A#m
F#
To say the least we were hard pressed
C#
Then Mama spent every
last penny we had
C#m
E
To buy me a dancin' dress
Verse 2
and curled my hair
C#
And she painted my eyes
G#
Abm
and lips then I stepped into
Ab
A satin dancin' dress that had a
Db
Ab
split on the side clean up
Db
It was red velvet trim and it
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
Ab
There stood a wo man where a
Db
Abm
half grown kid had stood
Verse 3
E
She said here's your one chance
Gb
Abm
Fancy don't let me down
B
Db
Here's your one chance Fancy
Abm
Ab
Abm
don't let me down
Verse 4
Abm
Mama dabbled a little bit
Gb
of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
Db
Then I saw the tears wellin' up
When she started to speak
Abm
She looked at a pitiful shack
Gb
And then she looked at me
and took a ragged breath
Db
She said your Pa's run off and
I'm real sick
E
And the baby's gonna starve to death
Verse 5
Abm
She handed me a heart shaped
Gb
"To thine own self be true"
Db
And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl across
E
The toe of my high heeled shoe
Abm
It soun ded like somebody
else that was talkin'
C
Fm
Askin' Mama what do I do
Db
She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
Eb
And they'll be nice to you
E
Gb
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Abm
Absus4
Abm
don't let me down
B
Db
Here's your one chance Fancy
Ab
Abm
don't let me down
B
Db
Lord forgive me for what I do,
E
Eb
Now don't let me down you better
Ab
Abm
start movin' up town
Verse 6
Ab
Abm
G#
G#m
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
G#
F#
The night I left that rickety shack
C#
The welfare people came
and took the baby
E
Mama died and I ain't been back
Verse 7
G#m
But the wheels of fate had
started to turn
F#
And for me there was no way out
C#
And it wasn't very long 'till I knew exactly
F#
E
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
Verse 8
G#m
I knew what I had to do but I made
F#
myself this solemn vow
C#
That I's gonna be a lady someday
E
Though I didn't know when or how
G#m
G#
I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
C
E#m
With my head hung down in shame you know
C#
I might have been born
just plain white trash
D#
E
But Fancy was my name
Verse 9
E
F#
Here's your one chance Fancy
G#m
don't let me down
C#
G#m
Fancy don't let me down
Verse 10
A
E
It wasn't long after that benevolent man
C
E
Took me off the street
G
E
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
A
In a five room hotel suite
Verse 11
a king, congressman
A
And an occasional aristocrat
E
G
C
E
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
C
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
Am
And I ain't done bad
C
D
Verse 12
Am
A
Now in this world there's a lot
D
of self- righteous hypocrites
Am
That would call me bad
A
And criticize Mama for turning me out
D
A
No matter how little we had
Verse 13
A
But though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
C#
F#m
For nigh on fifteen years
D
I can still hear the desperation
in my poor
E
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
Verse 14
F
G
here's your one chance Fancy
A
Am
don't let me down
C
D
Here's your one chance Fancy
Am
C
D
Lord, for give me for what I do
F
But if you want out well
E
A
You Mama's gonna help you uptown
Asus4
I
Verse 15
Am
D
did
A
Am
A
Verse 16
F
And you pay your Mama good mind
A
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