Fancy-Fancy

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.15]Bobbie gentry [00:16.32]I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:19.65]It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:20.31]We lived in a one room rundown shack [00:23.19]On the outskirts of new orleans [00:33.12]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:33.99]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:35.49]Then mama spent every last penny we had [00:36.45]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:41.37]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:42.72]And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin [00:44.91]Dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip [00:46.23]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:47.64]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:57.36]There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood [01:00.27]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:01.50]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:02.73]Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:03.75]And she kissed my cheek [01:04.23]Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes [01:08.76]When she started to speak [01:09.66]She looked at a pitiful shack [01:10.32]And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath [01:13.20]She said your pa's run off and I'm real sick [01:14.07]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:15.72]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:18.39]To thine own self be true [01:19.23]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:20.16]The tow of my high heel shoe [01:20.82]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:22.74]Askin' mama what do I do [01:23.31]She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy [01:24.45]And they'll be nice to you [01:26.19]She said here's your chance fancy don't let me down [01:28.80]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:29.79]Lord forgive me for what I do but if you want out [01:39.81]Well it's up to you [01:43.41]Now don't let me down you better start movin' uptown [01:44.52]Well that was the last time I saw my ma [01:45.33]The night I left that rickety shack [01:46.05]The welfare people came and took the baby [01:47.73]Mama died and I ain't been back [01:49.23]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [01:50.16]And for me there was no way out [01:54.84]And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly [01:56.61]What my mama's been talkin' about [01:57.63]I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow [01:58.80]That I's gonna be a lady someday [01:59.49]Though I don't know when or how [02:00.03]I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:01.32]With my head hung down in shame you know [02:03.57]I might have been born just plain white trash [02:06.60]But fancy was my name [02:08.13]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [02:09.69]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [02:10.68]It wasn't very long after a benevolent man [02:11.85]Took me off the street [02:12.33]And one week later I was pourin' his tea [02:13.23]In a five room hotel suite [02:14.07]I charmed a king a congressman [02:15.15]And an occasional aristocrat [02:15.87]Then I got me a georgia mansion [02:16.71]In an elegant new york townhouse flat [02:17.61]And I ain't done bad [02:19.32]Now in this world there's a lot of self righteous hippocrits [02:21.15]That would call me bad [02:21.99]And criticize mama for turning me out [02:22.86]No matter how little we had [02:23.61]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [02:26.37]For nigh on fifteen years [02:26.94]I can still hear the desperation in my poor [02:27.93]Mama's voice ringin' in my ear [02:28.83]She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [02:29.97]Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [02:30.96]Lord forgive me for what I do [02:31.62]But if you want out well it's up to you [02:32.55]Now don't let me down [02:37.02]Your mama's gonna help you uptown [02:37.80]I guess she did