Fancy (Acoustic Version)-Reba McEntire

[ti:Fancy (Revisited)] [ar:Reba McEntire] [al:Revived Remixed Revisited] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fancy (Acoustic Version) - Reba McEntire [00:00.70]Lyrics by：Bobby Gentry [00:01.22]Composed by：Bobby Gentry [00:11.06]I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:13.47]It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:16.10]We lived in a one room rundown shack [00:18.61]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:21.38]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:23.52]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:26.15]Then Mama spent every last penny we had [00:28.58]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:31.16]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:34.00]And then she painted my eyes [00:35.23]And lips then I stepped into a satin [00:37.34]Dancin' dress that had a [00:38.66]Split on the side clean up to my hip [00:42.07]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:46.38]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:47.95]There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood [00:51.23]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [00:56.22]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:04.19]Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:07.50]Then she kissed my cheek [01:08.99]And then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes [01:12.09]As she started to speak [01:14.57]She looked at our pitiful shack [01:16.22]And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath [01:19.13]She said your pa's runned off and I'm real sick [01:21.74]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:24.49]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:26.80]To thine own self be true [01:29.21]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:31.73]The toe of my high heel shoe [01:34.45]It sounded like somebody else it was talkin' [01:37.04]Askin' mama what do I do [01:39.44]She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:42.05]They'll be nice to you [01:44.33]She said here's your chance Fancy don't let me down [01:49.52]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:54.11]Lord forgive me for what I do [01:57.21]But if you want out well it's up to you [01:59.76]Now don't let me down now [02:01.19]Your mama's gonna move you uptown [02:07.67]Well that was the last time I saw my ma [02:09.98]The night I left that rickety shack [02:12.48]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:14.68]Mama died and I ain't been back [02:17.26]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:19.93]And for me there was no way out [02:22.31]And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly [02:24.83]What my mama'd been talkin' about [02:27.77]I knew what I had to do and [02:29.65]I made myself this solemn vow [02:32.60]That I's gonna be a lady someday [02:35.07]Though I don't know when or how [02:37.78]But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:40.41]With my head hung down in shame [02:42.53]You know I might have been born just plain white trash [02:45.06]But Fancy was my name [02:47.60]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [02:52.70]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:00.79]It wasn't long after a benevolent man [03:02.94]Took me in off the streets [03:05.51]And one week later I was pourin' his tea [03:07.99]In a five room hotel suite [03:10.59]I charmed a king a congressman [03:12.84]And an occasional aristocrat [03:15.29]And then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:17.36]And an elegant New York townhouse flat [03:19.95]And I ain't done bad she ain't done bad [03:30.95]Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites [03:34.36]That'd call me bad [03:36.12]And criticize mama for turning me out [03:38.40]No matter how little we had [03:40.69]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [03:43.31]For nigh on fifteen years [03:45.62]Well I can still hear the desperation [03:47.76]In my poor mama's voice ringin' in my ears [03:51.09]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:55.75]Oh here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [04:00.27]Lord forgive me for what I do [04:03.65]But if you want out well it's up to you [04:06.20]Now don't let me down [04:07.34]Your mama's gonna move you uptown [04:13.15]And I guess she did