Tonalité : Ab major
Verse 1
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I remember it all very well,
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looking back it was the summer I turned 18
C
We lived in a one -room run
-down shack
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on the outskirts of New Orleans
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We didn't have money for food or rent,
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to say the least we were hard -pressed
C
Then Mama spent every last penny
Eb
we had to buy me a dancing dress
G
Mama washed it,
combed and curled my hair,
C
G
and she painted my eyes and lips
Then I stepped into my satin dancing dress,
C
G
it was spit on the side, clean up to my hips
It was red velvet trim
C
G
and it fitted me good
And staring back from the looking glass
C
was a woman wearing half
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-grown kid hats
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F
Here's your one chance, fancy,
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Bb
C
G
don't let me down
Bb
But forgive me for what I do
C
Eb
F
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
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Well, don't let me down,
D
your mama gonna help you
G
move uptown
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume
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on my neck
and she kissed my cheek
C
Then I saw the tears well up
in her troubled eyes
Eb
when she started to speak
G
She looked at our pitiful shack
and then she looked at me
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and took a ragged breath
C
Your paws run off and I'm real sick
Eb
and the baby's gonna starve to death
G
She handed me a heart -shaped blocket
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that said, To thine own self be true
C
And shivered as she watched a roach crawl
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across the toe of my high -heeled shoe
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It sounded like somebody else
that was talking, asking,
B
Em
Mama, what can I do?
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Just be nice to the gentleman fancy
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G
And they'll be nice to you
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F
Here's your one chance, fancy,
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don't let me down
Bb
C
Here's your one chance, fancy,
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Gm
don't let me down
G
Bb
Lord, forgive me for what I do
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Eb
F
But if you own up, it's up to you now
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Get on up, baby,
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G
mama's gonna move you uptown
Girl, that was the last time I saw my mama
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The night I left the rickety shack
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Cause the welfare people
came and took my baby
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Mama died and I ain't been back
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But the wheels of fate have
started to turn
Gm
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For me there was no way out
C
And it wasn't very long
till I knew exactly
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What my mama's been talking about
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I did what I had to do
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But to myself I made a solemn vow
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That I was gonna be
a lady someday
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Though I didn't know when or how
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I couldn't stay spending
the rest of my life
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Em
With my head hung down in shame
C
I might have been born
just plain black trash
D
G
But Mansley was my name
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F
Here's your one chance, Vance
G
Don't let me down
Bb
C
Here's your one chance, Vance
G
Don't let me down
C
Was very hung up and never let man
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Took me in off the street
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C
And one week later I was pouring his tea
In a five -room hotel suite
Bb
C
I charmed a king, a congressman,
and an occasional aristocrat
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C
F
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
C
Bb
C
and an elegant New York townhouse flat
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Bb
C
G
And I ain't done that
Now in this world
there are a lot of self -righteous hypocrites
C
who would call me bad
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And criticize my mom
for turning me out
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no matter how good I was
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And so I ain't have to
worry about nothin'
B
But now I'm fifteen years
Em
C
I can still hear the desperation
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D
In my poor mama's voice
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ringing in my ears
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Eb
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Here's your one chance, Nancy
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Don't let me down
Bb
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Here's your one chance, Nancy
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Don't let me down
Bb
C
Will you forgive me for what I do?
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And if you won't now
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Will it suck to you now?
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Don't let me down
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G
Your mama won't let me move up down
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C
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Bb
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G
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You
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