Fancy-Bobbie Gentry

[ti:Fancy] [ar:Bobbie Gentry] [al:Ode To Bobbie Gentry: The Capitol Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fancy - Bobbie Gentry [00:02.81]Written by：Bobbie Gent [00:05.63]Well I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:08.03]It was the summer that I turned eighteen [00:09.97] [00:10.60]We lived in a one room run down shack [00:12.83]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:14.65] [00:15.76]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:17.81]To say the least we was hard pressed [00:20.22]When Momma spent every last penny we had [00:22.56]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:24.30] [00:24.87]Well Momma washed and combed and curled my hair [00:27.45]Then she painted my eyes and lips [00:29.20] [00:29.93]Then I stepped into the satin dancin' dress [00:32.20]It had a split in the side clean up to my hips [00:34.62] [00:35.67]It was red velvet trimmed and it fit me good [00:39.06]And standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:40.95]Was a woman [00:41.48]Where a half grown kid had stood [00:43.39] [00:44.05]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [00:47.26] [00:48.94]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [00:52.02] [00:53.30]God forgive me for what I do [00:54.70] [00:55.48]But if you want out girl it's up to you [00:57.75]Now get on out you better start sleepin' uptown [01:00.79]Don't let me down [01:02.12] [01:03.21]Don't let me down [01:04.21] [01:04.94]Momma dabbed a little bit of perfume [01:07.13]On my neck and she kissed my cheek [01:09.48]Then I saw the tears welling up [01:11.45]In her troubled eyes as she started to speak [01:13.64] [01:14.24]She looked at our pitiful shack and then [01:16.08]She looked at me and took a ragged breath [01:17.93] [01:18.89]Your Pa's runned off and I'm real sick [01:21.01]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:22.65] [01:23.43]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:25.80]To thine own self be true [01:28.07]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:30.21]The toe of my high healed shoe [01:32.14] [01:32.69]It sounded like somebody else was talkin' [01:34.95]Askin' omma what do I do [01:36.75] [01:37.44]And just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:39.85]They'll be nice to you [01:41.33] [01:42.12]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [01:45.16] [01:46.81]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [01:49.86] [01:51.13]God forgive me for what I do [01:52.68] [01:53.33]But if you want out girl it's up to you [01:55.48]Now get on out you better start sleepin' uptown [01:58.67] [02:02.77]That was the last time I saw my momma [02:04.90]When I left that rickety shack [02:06.42] [02:07.00]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:09.47]Momma died and I ain't been back [02:11.53]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:13.86]And for me there was no other way out [02:16.09]It wasn't very long after that I knew exactly [02:18.22]What my momma was talkin' 'bout [02:20.06] [02:20.67]I knew what I had to do [02:22.45]But I made myself this solemn vow [02:24.89] [02:25.44]I's gonna to be a lady someday [02:27.54]Though I didn't know when or how [02:29.96]I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life [02:32.14]With my head hung down in shame [02:34.42]I mighta been born just plain white trash [02:36.77]But Fancy was my name [02:38.80] [02:39.42]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [02:42.71] [02:44.02]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [02:47.00] [02:50.61]Wasn't long after that a benevolent man [02:52.82]Took me in off the streets [02:54.44] [02:55.19]One week later I was pourin' his tea [02:57.46]In a five roomed penthouse suite [02:58.98]Since then I've charmed a king a congressman [03:01.88]And an occasional aristocrat [03:03.41] [03:04.01]And I got me an elegant Georgia mansion [03:05.89]And a New York townhouse flat [03:07.82]Now I ain't done bad [03:09.43]Now I ain't done bad [03:11.36] [03:18.14]Now in this world there's a lot of self righteous [03:20.04]Hypocrites who call me bad [03:21.75] [03:22.41]They criticize Momma for turning me out [03:24.55]No matter how little we had [03:26.26] [03:26.94]But I haven't had to worry 'bout nothin' [03:29.20]Now for nigh on fifteen years [03:31.26]But I can still hear the desperation [03:32.96]In my poor mommas voice ringin' in my ears [03:35.55] [03:36.09]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [03:39.13] [03:40.82]Oh here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [03:43.60] [03:44.98]God forgive me for what I do [03:47.03]But if you want out girl it's up to you [03:49.10]Now get on out you better start sleepin' uptown