Fancy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[E][G][A][E]

[Verse 1]
Well, I re[E]member it all very well, lookin' back
It was the [D]summer I turned eighteen
We [A]lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the [C]outskirts of New Orleans
We [E]didn't have money for food or rent
To say the [D]least, we were hard pressed
Then [A]mama spent every last penny we had
To buy [C]me a dancin' dress

[Pre-chorus 1]
My mama [E]washed and combed
and curled my hair
And then she [A]painted my eyes and [E]lips (lips)
Then I stepped into a satin dancin' dress
that had a [A]split from the side
clean [E]up to my hip
It was red velvet [A]trim and it fit me [E]good
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
There stood a woman
where a [A]half grown kid had [E]stood

[Chorus 1]
She said, [C]"Here's your one chance, [D]Fancy,
don't let me [E]down"
She said, [G]"Here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't let me [E]down"[E]

[Verse 2]
Mama [E]dabbed a little bit
of perfume on my [D]neck
Then she kissed my cheek
And then I [A]saw the tears wellin' up
in her troubled [C]eyes
As she started to speak
She [E]looked at our pitiful shack
And then she looked at [D]me
and took a ragged breath
She said, "Your [A]pa's runned off
and I'm real sick
And the [C]baby's gonna starve to death"
She [E]handed me a heart shaped locket
that said "To [D]thine own self be true"
And I [A]shivered as I watched a roach crawl
across the [C]toe of my high heel shoe
It [E]sounded like somebody else it was talkin',
askin' [G#]"Mama, what do I [C#m]do?"
She said, [A]"Just be nice
to the gentlemen, Fancy
[B]They'll be nice to [E]you"

[Chorus 2]
Then she said [C]"Here's your one chance,
[D]Fancy, don't let me [E]down
[G]Here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't let me [E]down
Lord, for[G]give me for what I [A]do
But if [C]you want out, well, it's [D]up to you
Now don't [C]let me down now
Your [B]mama's gonna move you up[E]town"[E]

[Verse 3]
Well, [E]that was the last time I saw my ma
The night I [D]left that rickety shack
The [A]welfare people came and took the baby
Mama [C]died and I ain't been back
But the [E]wheels of fate had started to turn
And for [D]me there was no way out
It [A]wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
What my [C]mama been talkin' about
I [E]knew what I had to do
when I made my[D]self this solemn vow
That [A]I's gonna be a lady someday
Though I [C]didn't know when or how
But I [E]couldn't see spending the rest of my life
With my [G#]head hung down in [C#m]shame
You know I [A]might have been born
just plain white trash
But [B]Fancy was my [E]name

[Chorus 3]
She said, [C]"Here's your one chance, [D]Fancy,
don't let me [E]down"
She said, [G]"Here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't [E]let me [E]down"

[Verse 4]
It [E]wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took me in off the streets
One week later, I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite (yes she was)
I [E]charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
And then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat

[Interlude 1]
And I ain't done
[E](bad) (she ain't done [G]bad)[A][E]

[Pre-chorus 2]
Now [E]in this world,
there's a lot of self-righteous [A]hypocrites
that'd call me [E]bad (bad)
And criticize mama for turning me out
No [A]matter how little we [E]had
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
For [G#]nigh on fifteen [C#m]years
Well, I can [A]still hear the desperation
In my poor mama's [B]voice ringin' in my [E]ears

[Chorus 4]
[C]"Here's your one chance, [D]Fancy,
don't let me [E]down
Oh, [G]here's your one chance, [A]Fancy,
don't let me [E]down
Lord, for[G]give me for what I [A]do
But if [C]you want out, well, it's [D]up to you
Now don't [C]let me down, hon
Your [B]mama's gonna move you up[E]town"[E]

[Outro 1]
Oh and I guess she did
[E][G][A][E]
[Repeat and fade]