Fancy-The Geraldine Fibbers

[ti:Fancy] [ar:The Geraldine Fibbers] [al:What Part of Get Thee Gone Don't You Understand?] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.56]Fancy - The Geraldine Fibbers [00:01.26]Written by：The Geraldine Fibbers [00:02.18] [00:10.56]I remember it all very well looking back it was the summer I turned 16 [00:14.97] [00:15.58]We lived in a one room rundown shack on the outskirts of new Orleans [00:19.67] [00:20.65]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:23.02]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:25.53]And mama scraped every penny she had to by me a satin dancing dress [00:30.53]Mama washed and combed and curled my [00:33.03]Hair and she painted up my eyes and lips [00:34.89] [00:35.49]Then I stepped into that satin dancing [00:37.61]Dress it was slit on the side straight up to my hips [00:40.29] [00:41.75]It was red velvet trimmed and it fit me good [00:45.04] [00:45.80]And looking back from the mirror was a woman [00:48.39]Where a half grown kid had stood [00:49.93] [00:55.97]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [00:59.40] [01:00.97]Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now [01:04.29] [01:11.00]Mama looked out our pitiful shack and she [01:13.41]Looked at me and took a ragged breath [01:15.12] [01:15.74]She said your pa's run off and [01:17.68]I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death [01:20.22] [01:20.97]She handed me a heart shape locket that said to thine ownself be true [01:25.25] [01:25.77]And I shivered as [01:26.85]I watched a roach crawl across the toe of my high heeled shoe [01:30.50] [01:31.02]It sounded like someone else who was talking saying mama what should I do [01:35.83]Just be nice to the gentlemen fancy and they'll be nice to you [01:40.43] [01:46.31]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:50.44] [01:51.63]Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now [01:55.00] [01:56.03]Lord forgive me for what I do [01:58.10]But if you want out girl it's up to you [02:01.00]Get on out now you'd better start moving up town [02:06.76] [02:13.96]Well that was the last time [02:15.32]I saw my mama when I left that rickety shack [02:17.78] [02:18.38]The welfare people came and took the baby mama died and I ain't been back [02:22.90] [02:23.65]I did what I had to do but I made myself a solemn vow [02:28.17] [02:28.84]That I was gonna be a lady someday though I didn't know where to how [02:32.98] [02:33.72]I couldn't see spending the rest of [02:35.72]My life with my head hung down in shame [02:38.59]I may have been born just plain white trash but fancy was my name [02:43.26] [02:49.11]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [02:53.45] [02:54.05]Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now [02:57.63] [02:58.84]Lord forgive me for what I do [03:00.40] [03:01.13]But if you want out girl it's up to you [03:03.72]Get on out now you'd better start moving up town [03:08.23] [03:16.53]It wasn't long after a benevolent man took me in off of the streets [03:20.74] [03:21.33]And one week later I was pouring his tea in a five room hotel suite [03:25.97] [03:26.54]I charmed a king a congress man and an occasional aristocrat [03:30.66] [03:31.51]Then I got me a Georgia mansion and an elegant New York townhouse flat [03:35.97]I ain't done bad