Fancy

Reba McEntire

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  S1:
  I remember it all very well looking back 

  It was the summer I turned eighteen 

  We lived in a one-room, rundown shack 

  On the outskirts of New Orleans 

  We didn't have money for food or rent 

  To say the least, we were hard pressed 

  Then mama spent every last penny we had 

  To buy me a dancing dress 

  Well, Mama washed and combed and curled my hair 

  Then she painted my eyes and lips (Lips) 

  Then I stepped into a satin dancing dress 

  That had a split on the side clean up to my hip 

  It was red velvet trim  

  And it had fit me good 

  Well, standing back from the looking glass 

  There stood a woman where a half-grown kid had stood
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  R1:
  She said, "Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down" 

  She said, "Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down" 

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  S2:
  Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume 

  On my neck then she kissed my cheek 

  And then I saw the tears welling up 

  In her troubled eyes as she started to speak 

  She looked at our pitiful shack 

  And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath 

  She said, "Your Pa's runned off and I'm real sick 

  And the baby's gonna starve to death" 

  She handed me a heart-shaped locket that said 

  "To thine own self be true" 

  And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across 

  The toe of my high-heeled shoe 

  It sounded like somebody else that was talking 

  Asking Mama, "What do I do?" 

  She said, "Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy 

  They'll be nice to you"
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  R2:
  She said, "Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down 

  Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down 

  Lord, forgive me for what I do 

  But if you want out, well, it's up to you 

  Now don't let me down now 

  Your Mama's gonna move you uptown" 

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  S3:
  Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma 

  The night I left that rickety shack 

  The welfare people came and took the baby 

  Mama died and I ain't been back 

  But the wheels of fate had started to turn 

  And for me there was no way out 

  It wasn't very long until I knew exactly 

  What my Mama'd been talking about 

  I knew what I had to do 

  And I made myself this solemn vow 

  That I was gonna be a lady someday 

  Though I didn't know when or how 

  But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life 

  With my head hung down in shame 

  You know I might've been born just plain white trash 

  But Fancy was my name
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  R1:
  She said, "Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down" 

  She said, "Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down" 

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  S4:
  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 five-room hotel suite (Yes, she was) 

  I charmed a king, congressman 

  And an occasional aristocrat 

  Then I got me a Georgia mansion 

  And an elegant New York townhouse flat 

  And I ain't done bad (She ain't done bad) 

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  S5:
  Now in this world 

  There's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites that call me bad 

  They criticize Mama for turning me out 

  No matter how little we had 

  But though I ain't had to worry about nothing 

  For nigh on fifteen years 

  Well, I can still hear the desperation 

  In my poor Mama's voice ringing in my ears
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  R2:
  "Here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down 

  Oh, here's your one chance 

  Fancy, don't let me down 

  Lord, forgive me for what I do 

  But if you want out, well, it's up to you 

  Now don't let me down, hon' 

  Your Mama's gonna move you uptown"
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