Fancy

E G A E
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[Verse 1]
  E
I remember it all very well lookin' 
back
    A
It was the summer I turned eighteen
   A
We lived in a one room, rundown 
shack
 C   E
On the outskirts of New Orleans
   E
We didn't have money for food or 
rent
     A
To say the least we were hard 
pressed
     A
Then Mama spent every last penny we 
had
   C     E
To buy me a dancin' dress

 E
Mama washed and combed and curled my
 hair
 A D
and she painted my eyes and lips 
then I stepped into a satin
 A E
dancin' dress that had a split on 
the side clean up to my hip
E   A
It was red velvet trim and it fit me
 good
  D
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
     A E
There stood a woman where a half 
grown kid had stood

[Chorus 1]
    C A    E run#1
She said here's your one chance 
Fancy don't let me down
  G A   E run#2  E
Here's your one chance Fancy don't 
let me down

[Verse 2]
     E
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume 
on my neck
 A
And she kissed my cheek
 A C
Then I saw the tears wellin' up in 
her troubled eyes
     E
When she started to speak
    E
She looked at a pitiful shack
        A
And then she looked at me and took a
 ragged breath
       A
She said your Pa's run off and I'm 
real sick
 C E
And the baby's gonna starve to death
    E
She handed me a heart shaped locket 
that said
    A
"To thine own self be true"
 D
And I shivered as I watched a roach 
crawl across
    A   E
the toe of my high heeled shoe
   E
It sounded like somebody else that 
was talkin'
 G#       C#
Askin' Mama what do I do
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 A
She said just be nice to the 
gentlemen Fancy
    B E
And they'll be nice to you

[Chorus 1]
 C A    E run#1
She said, here's your one chance 
Fancy don't let me down
 G A   E run#2
Here's your one chance Fancy don't 
let me down

[Chorus 2]
 G A       C
Lord forgive me for what I do, but 
if you want out
           D
Well it's up to you
    C B E
Now don't let me down you better 
start movin' uptown

[Verse 3]
     E
Well that was the last time I saw my
 Ma
 A
The night I left that rickety shack
 A
The welfare people came and took the
 baby
     C    E
Mama died and I ain't been back

    E
But the wheel of fate had started to
 turn
 A
And for me there was no way out
 A
And it wasn't very long 'til I knew 
exactly
 C     E
What my Mama'd been talkin' about

  E    A
I knew what I had to do but I made 
myself this solemn vow
      D
That I's gonna be a lady someday
 A      E
Though I didn't know when or how
  E
I couldn't see spending the rest of 
my life
 G#   C#
With my head hung down in shame you 
know
 A
I might have been born just plain 
white trash
     B   E
But Fancy was my name

[Chorus 1]
 C A   E run#1
Here's your one chance Fancy don't 
let me down
 G A   E run#2 E
Here's your one chance Fancy don't 
let me down

[Verse 4]
 * Guitar in next verse is played 
almost as percussion
 * Fret-hand dampens strings, 
pick-hand keeps tempo
It wasn't long after a benevolent 
man

Took me off the street

And one week later I was pourin' his
 tea

In a five room hotel suite


I charmed a king, a congressman

And an occasional aristocrat

Then I got me a Georgia mansion

In an elegant New York townhouse 
flat
 * Guitar comes back in...
 E   repeat intro E G A E
And I ain't done bad

 E   A
Now in this world there's a lot of 
self-righteous hippocrits

That would call me bad
    D
And criticize Mama for turning me 
out
   A E
No matter how little we had

 E
But though I ain't had to worry 
'bout nothin'
    G#     C#
For nigh on fifteen years
      A
I can still hear the desparation in 
my poor
 B    E
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear

[Chorus 1]
 C A     E run#1
She said, here's your one chance 
Fancy don't let me down
 G A   E run#2
Here's your one chance Fancy don't 
let me down

[Chorus 2]
 G A
Lord forgive me for what I do
 C     D
But if you want out well it's up to 
you
     C
Now don't let me down
     B    E
Your Mama's goina help you uptown

  E (repeat intro/outro to end)
I guess she did
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Comments:

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