Tonalité : F# minor
Verse 1
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Em
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I remember
it all very well,
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looking back was the sum
mer I turned eighteen
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We lived in a one -room
run -down shack
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on the outskirts of New Orleans
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Em
We didn't have money for food or rent,
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to say the least we were hard -pressed
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Then Mama spent every last penny
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we had to buy me a dancing dress
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Em
Mama washed and combed
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and curled my hair,
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Em
then she painted my eyes and lips
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Then I stepped into a
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satin dan cing dress,
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they had it split to the side,
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clean up to my hair
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It was red, fell but trimmed
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and it fit me good
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Standing back from the looking glass,
there stood a woman
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Em
where a half -grown kid had stood
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She said, here's your one chance
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Em
Fancy, don't let me down
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Oh, here's your one chance
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Em
Fancy, don't let me down
Esus4
Em
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Mama dabbed a little bit
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of perfume on my neck
Then she kissed my cheek
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Then I saw the tears welling up
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in her troubled eyes
So she started to speak
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She looked at her pitiful shack
And then she looked at me
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and took a ragged breath
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She said, pa's run doff and
I'm real sick
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and the baby's gonna starve to death
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She handed me a heart
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-shaped locket
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that said, to thine own self be true
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And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl
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across the toe of my high -heeled shoe
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Em
It sounded like somebody else was talking,
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asking, Mama, what do I do?
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She said, just be nice to the genuine fancy
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and they'll be nice to you
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She said, here's your one chance,
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Em
Fancy, don't let me down
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Oh, here's your one chance,
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Esus4
Fancy, don't let me down
Em
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Lord, forgive me for what I do
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But if you want out, then it's up to you
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Now don't let me down, honey,
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mama's gonna move you to
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town
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That was the last time I saw my mama
Em
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I left that rickety shack
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The welfare people came and
took the baby,
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mama died and I ain't been back
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But the wheels of fate started to turn
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and for me there was no way out
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It wasn't very long till I knew exactly
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what my mama been talking about
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I knew what I had to do
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and I made myself this solemn vow
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I was gonna be a lady someday,
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though I didn't know when or how
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But I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
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C#m
with my head hung down in shame
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You know I might have been born
just plain white trash,
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but Fancy wasn't my name
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She said,
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here's your one chance
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Em
Fancy, don't let me down
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Oh, here's your one chance
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Fancy, don't let me down
Esus4
Em
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Esus4
Em
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It wasn't long after a
benevolent man
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took me in off the street
One week later I was pouring his tea
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in a five -room hotel suite
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I charmed a king,
a congressman,
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and an occasional aristocrat
And then I got me a Georgia mansion
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Em
and an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done that
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Em
She's not there
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In this world, there's a lot of self -righteous
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Em
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hy pocrites that call me bad
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Criticize my mother for turning me out,
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no matter how little we had
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But no,
I ain't had to worry about nothing
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C#m
for not all fifteen years
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I can still hear the desperation
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in my poor mama's voice
ringing in my ear
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Here's your one -chance fancy,
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Em
don't let me down
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Oh, here's your one -chance fancy,
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Esus4
don't let me down
Em
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Lord, forgive me for what I do
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But if you want out, then it's up to you
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Now don't let me down, honey
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Em
Mommy's gonna keep you uptown
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Em
Oh, I guess she did
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Em
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Thank for you
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