[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:10.40]I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:12.76]It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:15.48]We lived in a one room rundown shack [00:17.81]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:20.50]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:22.88]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:25.51]Then mama spent every last penny we had [00:27.81]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:30.49]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:32.91]And she painted my eyes and lips [00:35.54]Then I stepped into a satin [00:37.04]Dancin' dress that had a split on [00:38.66]The side clean up to my hip [00:41.46]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:45.69]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:47.27]There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood [00:50.40]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [00:55.49]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:03.55]Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:06.27]And then she kissed my cheek [01:08.45]Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes [01:11.41]As she started to speak [01:13.73]She looked at our pitiful shack [01:15.19]And then she looked at me and took a ragged [01:17.29]Breath [01:18.58]She said your pa's run'd off and I'm real sick [01:21.01]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:23.60]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:26.01]To thine own self be true [01:28.60]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:31.17]The toe of my high heel shoe [01:33.85]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:36.17]Askin' mama what do I do [01:38.49]She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy [01:41.40]They'll be nice to you [01:43.63]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:49.13]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:53.40]Lord forgive me for what I do but if you [01:56.89]Want out well it's up to you [01:58.78]Now don't let me down now your mama's gonna move [02:01.09]You uptown [02:06.51]Well that was the last time I saw my ma [02:09.00]The night I left that rickety shack [02:11.63]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:13.97]Mama died and I ain't been back [02:16.61]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:19.16]And for me there was no way out [02:21.97]When they long 'till I knew exactly [02:24.16]What my mama'd been talkin' about [02:26.93]I knew what I had to do [02:28.74]And I made myself this solemn vow [02:31.77]That I's gonna be a lady someday [02:34.32]Though I didn't know when or how [02:36.81]But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:39.39]With my head hung down in shame [02:41.93]You know I might have been born just plain white trash [02:44.43]But fancy was my name [02:46.94]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me [02:49.54]Down [02:52.02]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me [02:55.21]Down [02:59.89]It wasn't long after a benevolent man [03:02.14]Took me in off the street [03:04.68]And one week later I was pourin' his tea [03:07.12]In a five room hotel suite [03:09.84]I charmed a king a congressman and an occasional aristocrat [03:14.82]Then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:16.63]In an legant New York townhouse flat [03:19.21]And I ain't done bad [03:30.00]Now in this world there's a lot of self righteous [03:32.67]Hiypocrits that would call me bad [03:35.04]And criticize mama for turning me out [03:37.39]No matter how little we had [03:40.04]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [03:42.60]For now on fifteen years [03:45.11]Well I can still hear the desperation in my poor [03:47.66]Mama's voice ringin' in my ears [03:50.44]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [03:55.56]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [03:59.84]Lord forgive me for what I do but if you [04:03.32]Want out well it's up to you [04:05.24]Now don't let me down hon your mama's gonna move [04:07.69]You uptown [04:12.07]Oh and I guess she did