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[Intro]
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F#5 | A
[Verse 1]
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B5 F#5 F#5
I remember it all very well looking back
E
It was the summer I turned eighteen
B
We lived in a oneroom, rundown shack
D
On the outskirts of New Orleans
F#5
We didn't have money for food or rent
E
To say the least, we were hard pressed
B
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
D
To buy me a dancing dress
F#5
Well, Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
B F#5
Then she painted my eyes and lips
Then I stepped into a satin dancing dress
B F#5
That had a split on the side clean up to my hip
B F#5
It was red velvet trim and it had fit me good
Well, standing back from the looking glass
B F#5
There stood a woman where a halfgrown kid had stood
[Chorus (1)]
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D E/B F#5
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
A B F#5
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
[Verse 2]
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F#5 E
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
Then she kissed my cheek
B/D# D
And then I saw the tears welling up in her troubled eyes
As she started to speak
F#5
She looked at our pitiful shack
E
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
B/D#
She said, "Your Pa's runned off and I'm real sick
D
And the baby's gonna starve to death"
F#5
She handed me a heartshaped locket that said
E
"To thine own self be true"
B/D#
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
D
The toe of my highheeled shoe
F#5
It sounded like somebody else that was talking
A#7 D#m
Asking Mama, "What do I do?"
B
She said, "Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy
C# F#5
They'll be nice to you"
[Chorus (2)]
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D E/B F#5
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
A B F#5
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
A B
Lord, forgive me for what I do
D E/B
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
D
Now don't let me down now
C#7 F#5
Your Mama's gonna move you uptown"
[Verse 3]
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F#5
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
E
The night I left that rickety shack
B/D#
The welfare people came and took the baby
D
Mama died and I ain't been back
F#5
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
E
And for me there was no way out
B/D#
It wasn't very long until I knew exactly
D
What my Mama'd been talking about
F#5 E
I knew what I had to do and I made myself this solemn vow
B/D#
That I was gonna be a lady someday
D
Though I didn't know when or how
F#5
But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
A#7 D#m
With my head hung down in shame
B
You know I might've been born just plain white trash
C# F#5
But Fancy was my name
[Chorus (3)]
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D E/B F#5
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
A B F#5
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
[Verse 4]
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F#5
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took me in off the streets
And one week later I was pouring his tea
In a fiveroom hotel suite
I charmed a king, congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
F#m7
And I ain't done bad
[Bridge]
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A B F#m7 F#5
Now in this world
[Verse 5]
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B F#5
There's a lot of selfrighteous hypocrites that call me bad
They criticize Mama for turning me out
B F#5
No matter how little we had
But though I ain't had to worry about nothing
A#7 D#m
For nigh on fifteen years
B
Well, I can still hear the desperation
C# F#5
In my poor Mama's voice ringing in my ears
[Chorus (4)]
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D E/B F#5
"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
A B F#5
Oh, here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
A B
Lord, forgive me for what I do
D E/B
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
D
Now don't let me down, hon'
C#7 F#5
Your Mama's gonna move you uptown"
Oh, and I guess she did
[Outro]
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F#5 | A | B | F#5
A | B
[Fade Out]
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F#5 | A | B | F#5
A | B5 | F#5
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