Ladies Of Country - Fancy

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:12.65]Well I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:15.20]Was the summer I turned eighteen [00:17.79]Lived in a one room rundown shack [00:19.94]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:22.67]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:24.94]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:27.88]Mama spent every last penny we had [00:29.84]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:32.67]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:34.97]And she painted my eyes and lips [00:37.35]Then I stepped into a satin' dancin' dress [00:39.93]That had a split on the side [00:41.30]Clean up to my hip [00:43.56]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:47.72]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:49.41]There stood a woman [00:50.30]Where a half grown kid had stood [00:52.57]She said here's your one chance [00:53.91]Fancy don't let me down [00:57.63]She said here's your one chance [00:59.02]Fancy don't let me down [01:05.30]Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume [01:07.71]On my neck and she kissed my cheek [01:09.82]And then I saw the tears wellin' up [01:11.94]In her troubled eyes as she started to speak [01:15.50]She looked at a pitiful shack [01:17.02]And she looked at me [01:18.20]And took a ragged breath [01:20.12]She said your Pa's runned off [01:21.52]I'm real sick [01:22.39]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:25.61]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:27.88]To thine own self be true [01:30.24]And shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:32.64]The toe of my high heeled shoe [01:35.26]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:37.60]Askin' mama what do I do [01:40.27]She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:42.79]They'll be nice to you [01:45.26]She said here's your one chance [01:46.60]Fancy don't let me down [01:50.53]Here's your one chance [01:51.68]Fancy don't let me down [01:54.78]Lord forgive me for what I do [01:57.83]But if you want out well it's up to you [02:00.03]Now don't let me down [02:01.25]Now your mama's gonna move you uptown [02:08.19]That was the last time I saw my ma [02:10.32]Night I left that rickety shack [02:12.87]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:15.19]Mama died and I ain't been back [02:18.02]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:20.20]And for me there was no way out [02:23.35]Wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly [02:25.24]What my mama'd been talkin' about [02:28.01]I knew what I had to do [02:29.80]And I made myself this solemn vow [02:33.21]That I's gonna be a lady someday [02:35.34]Though I didn't know when or how [02:38.06]But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:40.51]With my head hung down in shame [02:42.98]You know I might have been born [02:44.66]Just plain white trash [02:45.57]But Fancy was my name [02:47.89]She said here's your one chance [02:49.31]Fancy don't let me down [02:53.02]She said here's your one chance [02:54.44]Fancy don't let me down [03:01.00]Wasn't long after that benevolent man [03:02.85]Took me off the street [03:05.77]One week later I was pourin' his tea [03:08.14]In a five room hotel suite [03:09.77]And she why [03:10.86]And charmed a king a congressman [03:12.82]And an occasional aristocrat [03:15.19]And then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:17.43]And an elegant New York townhouse flat [03:19.60]And I ain't done bad she ain't done bad [03:30.97]Now in this world [03:31.73]There's a lot of self righteous hypocrites [03:33.94]Call me bad bad [03:35.95]Criticize mama for turning me out [03:38.09]No matter how little we had [03:40.80]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout [03:42.45]Nothing for nigh on fifteen years [03:45.53]Well I can still hear the desperation [03:47.44]In my poor mama's voice ringin' in my ears [03:50.84]Here's your one chance [03:51.99]Fancy don't let me down [03:55.67]Oh here's your one chance [03:57.04]Fancy don't let me down [04:00.17]Lord forgive me for what I do [04:03.12]But if you want out well it's up to you [04:05.23]Now don't let me down [04:06.77]Now your mama's gonna move you uptown [04:12.56]Oh and I guess she did