Fancy (The Voice Performance)-Shelbie Z.

[ti:Fancy (The Voice Performance)] [ar:Shelbie Z.] [al:2013 November 4: Live Playoffs, Part 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fancy (The Voice Performance) - Shelbie Z. [00:01.49](The Voice Performance) [00:02.31] [00:11.29]I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:13.72]It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:15.60] [00:16.53]We lived in a one room, rundown shack [00:18.84]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:20.65] [00:21.40]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:23.83]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:25.96] [00:26.50]Then Mama spent every last penny she had [00:28.74]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:30.68] [00:31.43]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:33.86]And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into [00:37.74]A satin' [00:38.37]Dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up [00:40.93]To my hip [00:41.52] [00:42.52]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:46.51]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:48.14]There stood a woman where a half grown kid [00:50.51]Had stood [00:51.57]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let [00:54.12]Me down [00:55.25] [00:57.00]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [00:59.77] [01:04.45]Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:07.51]And she kissed my cheek [01:09.26]Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eys [01:12.51]When she started to speak [01:13.75] [01:14.56]She looked at a pitiful shack And [01:16.30]Then she looked at me and took a ragged [01:18.36]Breath [01:19.36]She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick [01:21.92]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:23.85] [01:24.48]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:27.10]"To thine own self be true" [01:29.47]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl accross [01:31.97]The toe of my high heeled shoe [01:34.59]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:37.15]Askin' Mama what do I do [01:38.81] [01:39.68]She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:42.05]And they'll be nice to you [01:44.55]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:48.29] [01:49.67]Here's your one chance Fancy [01:51.78]Don't let me down [01:53.15] [01:54.33]Lord forgive me for what I do, [01:57.27]But if you want out [01:58.45]Well it's up to you [01:59.70]Now don't let me down [02:01.44]Movin' uptown [02:02.71] [02:07.45]It wasn't long after that benevolent man [02:09.89]Took me off the street [02:12.45]And one week later I was pourin' his tea [02:14.94]In a five room hotel suite [02:16.81] [02:17.62]I charmed a king, congressman [02:20.06]And an occasional aristocrat [02:21.74] [02:22.37]Then I got me a Georgia mansion [02:24.55]In an elegant New York townhouse flat [02:26.96] [02:37.82]Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous [02:39.69] [02:40.85]Hippocrates That would call me bad [02:42.91]And criticize Mama for turning me out [02:45.28]No matter how little we had [02:47.71]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [02:49.89]For nigh on fifteen years [02:52.77]I can still hear the desperation in my poor [02:55.45]Mama's voice ringin' in my ear [02:57.21] [02:58.21]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:01.26] [03:03.20]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:06.19] [03:07.57]Lord, forgive me for what I do [03:09.94] [03:10.56]But if you want out well it's up to you [03:13.06]Now don't let me down [03:14.82]You Mama's gonna move you uptown [03:16.44] [03:18.57]Don't let me down [03:19.57]You Mama's gonna move you uptown