Fancy Chords

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[Verse 1]
[E]I remember it all ver[Em]y well
looking [E]back
Was the summer I turned eighteen
[Em]We lived in a [E]one room, worn-out shack
shack
On the outskirts of New [Em]Or leans
We didn't have money
[E]for food or rent
To say the least we was hard-pressed
And And mama spent
every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin' dress
Mama washed and combed
and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips
[Em]Step[E]ped into a satin dancin' dress
That had a slit in the side
clean up to my hips
It was red velvet trimming
and it fit me [Em]good
Staring back from the look[E]ing glass
There stood a woman where a half-grown
boy boy had stood
[Em][E][Em]

[Verse 2]
[C]Here's your one chance, Fancy,
don't let me [Em]down[E]
[Em]Here[G]'s your one chance, Fanc[A]y,
don't let me down
[E][Em][E]

[Verse 3]
Mama dabbed a little bit
of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
I could see the tears welling up
in her troubled eyes
As she started to speak
She looked at our [Em]pi
tiful shack
And then she looked at me [E]and
took a ragged breath
[Em]She said your Pa's run off
and I'm real sick
[C]And the baby's gonna starve to death
She [Em]handed me a [E]heart-shaped
locket locket that said
"To [A]thine own [D]self be true"
And I [A]shivered as I watched a roach
Crawl [D]across the toe [C]of my
high-heeled shoe
shoe
It [Em]sounded like somebody
else that was talking
Asking, "Mama what [E]do [C#m]I do?"
She said, [A]"Just be nice to the gentlemen,
Fancy, [B]they'll be nice to you"

[Verse 4]
[C]Here's your one chance, Fancy,
don't let [E]me down
[G]Here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't let [E]me down
Lord, for[G]give me for what [A]I do
But if [C]you want out, well, it's [D]up to you
Don't [C]let me down now,
your [Bm]mama's gonna move you up[E]town[Em][E]

[Verse 5]
[E]That was the [Em]last time I saw my Ma
The night I [D]left that rickety shack
The [A]welfare people came
and took the baby
[D]Mama [C]died and I [Cm]ain't been back
[C]But the whe[Em]els of fat[E]e had
[Em]started to turn
And for [D]me there was no way out
It [A]wasn't very long till I knew
Exactly [C]what my mama'd been talking about
I [Em]knew what I had to do
But I made my[D]self this solemn vow
Said [A]I was gonna be a lady someday
Though it [C]didn't matter when or how
I [Em]couldn't see spend[E]ing
the rest of my life
With my head held down [C#m]in shame
You know, I [A]might've been
born just plain white trash
But Fancy [Bm]was my name

[Verse 6]
[C]Here's your one chance, Fancy,
don't let [E]me down
[G]Here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't let me down
[E]

[Verse 7]
[E]It wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took me in off [Em]the street
[E]One week later I was [Em]pouring his tea
In a five-[E]room hotel [A]hotel [Em]suite
I charmed a king,
a congressman
And the occasional [E]ar isto[Em]crat
I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant [A]New York townhouse [E]flat and
I [Em]ain't done [E]bad[Em]
[G][A]

[Verse 8]
[E]
Now in this life
There's a lot of self-righteous [Em]hy
pocrites [E]hypocrites that call [Em]me bad
And criticize [E]mama for turn
[Em]ing me out
No mat[A]ter how little [E]we had
And though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
For now on fifteen years
I can [A]still hear the desperation
in my poor mama's [B]voice

[Verse 9]
Ringing in my ears
[C]Here's your one chance, Fancy,
don't let [E]me down
[G]Here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't let [E]me down
Lord, for[G]give me for what [A]I do
But if [C]you want out, well, it's [D]up to you
Don't [C]let me down now, your [B]mama's gonna
move you Up[E]town[Em]

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