Fancy-Reba McEntire

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[00:00.00]Fancy - Reba McEntire
[00:05.15]Written by：Bobbie Gentry
[00:10.31]I remember it all very well lookin' back
[00:12.66]It was the summer I turned eighteen
[00:15.39]We lived in a one room rundown shack
[00:17.72]On the outskirts of New Orleans
[00:20.41]We didn't have money for food or rent
[00:22.79]To say the least we were hard pressed
[00:25.42]Then mama spent every last penny we had
[00:27.72]To buy me a dancin' dress
[00:30.40]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
[00:32.82]And she painted my eyes and lips
[00:35.44]Then I stepped into a satin
[00:36.94]Dancin' dress that had a split on
[00:38.56]The side clean up to my hip
[00:41.37]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
[00:45.60]Standin' back from the lookin' glass
[00:47.18]There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood
[00:50.30]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down
[00:55.40]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down
[01:03.46]Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
[01:06.17]And then she kissed my cheek
[01:08.36]Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
[01:11.31]As she started to speak
[01:13.64]She looked at our pitiful shack
[01:15.10]And then she looked at me and took a ragged
[01:17.20]Breath
[01:18.48]She said your pa's run'd off and I'm real sick
[01:20.91]And the baby's gonna starve to death
[01:23.51]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
[01:25.92]To thine own self be true
[01:28.51]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
[01:31.08]The toe of my high heel shoe
[01:33.75]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
[01:36.08]Askin' mama what do I do
[01:38.39]She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy
[01:41.31]They'll be nice to you
[01:43.54]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down
[01:49.03]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down
[01:53.31]Lord forgive me for what I do but if you
[01:56.80]Want out well it's up to you
[01:58.69]Now don't let me down now your mama's gonna move
[02:01.00]You uptown
[02:06.41]Well that was the last time I saw my ma
[02:08.90]The night I left that rickety shack
[02:11.54]The welfare people came and took the baby
[02:13.88]Mama died and I ain't been back
[02:16.51]But the wheels of fate had started to turn
[02:19.06]And for me there was no way out
[02:21.88]When they long 'till I knew exactly
[02:24.07]What my mama'd been talkin' about
[02:26.83]I knew what I had to do
[02:28.64]And I made myself this solemn vow
[02:31.67]That I's gonna be a lady someday
[02:34.23]Though I didn't know when or how
[02:36.71]But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
[02:39.29]With my head hung down in shame
[02:41.83]You know I might have been born just plain white trash
[02:44.34]But fancy was my name
[02:46.84]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me
[02:49.45]Down
[02:51.92]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me
[02:55.12]Down
[02:59.79]It wasn't long after a benevolent man
[03:02.05]Took me in off the street
[03:04.58]And one week later I was pourin' his tea
[03:07.03]In a five room hotel suite
[03:09.75]I charmed a king a congressman and an occasional aristocrat
[03:14.73]Then I got me a Georgia mansion
[03:16.53]In an legant New York townhouse flat
[03:19.12]And I ain't done bad
[03:29.90]Now in this world there's a lot of self righteous
[03:32.58]Hiypocrits that would call me bad
[03:34.95]And criticize mama for turning me out
[03:37.30]No matter how little we had
[03:39.95]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
[03:42.51]For now on fifteen years
[03:45.02]Well I can still hear the desperation in my poor
[03:47.57]Mama's voice ringin' in my ears
[03:50.35]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down
[03:55.46]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down
[03:59.75]Lord forgive me for what I do but if you
[04:03.23]Want out well it's up to you
[04:05.15]Now don't let me down hon your mama's gonna move
[04:07.59]You uptown
[04:11.97]Oh and I guess she did