Fancy-Sunshine Superstars

[ti:Fancy] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Tribute to the Women of Country Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fancy - Sunshine Superstars [00:12.44]Well I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:15.01]Was the summer I turned eighteen [00:16.55] [00:17.80]Lived in a one room rundown shack [00:20.00]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:21.58] [00:22.71]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:24.92]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:26.72] [00:27.81]Mama spent every last penny we had [00:29.89]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:31.72] [00:32.54]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:35.10]And she painted my eyes and lips [00:36.76] [00:37.57]Then I stepped into a satin' dancin' dress [00:39.89]That had a split on the side [00:41.31]Clean up to my hip [00:42.37] [00:43.46]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:46.86] [00:47.56]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:49.08]There stood a woman [00:50.02]Where a half grown kid had stood [00:51.77] [00:52.51]She said here's your one chance [00:54.02]Fancy don't let me down [00:56.10] [00:57.48]She said here's your one chance [00:59.05]Fancy don't let me down [01:00.74] [01:05.22]Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume [01:07.31]On my neck and she kissed my cheek [01:09.36] [01:10.02]And then I saw the tears wellin' up [01:11.98]In her troubled eyes as she started to speak [01:14.41] [01:15.29]She looked at a pitiful shack [01:16.97]And she looked at me [01:18.10]And took a ragged breath [01:19.22] [01:19.92]She said your Pa's runned off [01:21.67]I'm real sick [01:22.47]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:24.43] [01:25.42]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:27.69]To thine own self be true [01:29.53] [01:30.20]And shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:32.69]The toe of my high heeled shoe [01:34.58] [01:35.38]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:37.58]Askin' mama what do I do [01:39.44] [01:40.12]She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:42.96]They'll be nice to you [01:44.44] [01:45.08]She said here's your one chance [01:46.73]Fancy don't let me down [01:48.60] [01:50.54]Here's your one chance [01:51.67]Fancy don't let me down [01:53.29] [01:54.60]Lord forgive me for what I do [01:57.07] [01:57.66]But if you want out well it's up to you [02:00.08]Now don't let me down [02:01.36]Now your mama's gonna move you uptown [02:03.42] [02:08.16]That was the last time I saw my ma [02:10.30]Night I left that rickety shack [02:11.95] [02:12.96]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:15.27]Mama died and I ain't been back [02:17.12] [02:17.82]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:20.33]And for me there was no way out [02:22.10] [02:23.19]Wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly [02:25.30]What my mama'd been talkin' about [02:26.96] [02:28.07]I knew what I had to do [02:29.75]And I made myself this solemn vow [02:32.10] [02:33.04]That I's gonna be a lady someday [02:35.36]Though I didn't know when or how [02:37.04] [02:37.89]But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:40.24]With my head hung down in shame [02:42.17] [02:42.77]You know I might have been born [02:44.11]Just plain white trash [02:45.59]But Fancy was my name [02:47.20] [02:47.80]She said here's your one chance [02:49.33]Fancy don't let me down [02:51.22] [02:52.85]She said here's your one chance [02:54.35]Fancy don't let me down [02:56.52] [03:00.78]Wasn't long after that benevolent man [03:02.96]Took me off the street [03:04.82] [03:05.76]One week later I was pourin' his tea [03:07.89]In a five room hotel suite [03:09.81]And she why [03:10.59]And charmed a king a congressman [03:12.94]And an occasional aristocrat [03:14.40] [03:15.37]And then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:17.29]And an elegant New York townhouse flat [03:19.85]And I ain't done bad she ain't done bad [03:23.09] [03:30.77]Now in this world [03:31.77]There's a lot of self righteous hypocrites [03:33.90]Call me bad bad [03:35.86]Criticize mama for turning me out [03:38.00]No matter how little we had [03:39.78] [03:40.49]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout [03:42.63]Nothing for nigh on fifteen years [03:45.38]Well I can still hear the desperation [03:47.38]In my poor mama's voice ringin' in my ears [03:50.01] [03:50.84]Here's your one chance [03:51.98]Fancy don't let me down [03:54.15] [03:55.55]Oh here's your one chance [03:57.05]Fancy don't let me down [03:58.70] [04:00.04]Lord forgive me for what I do [04:02.41] [04:03.01]But if you want out well it's up to you [04:05.42]Now don't let me down [04:06.71]Now your mama's gonna move you uptown [04:08.52] [04:12.39]Oh and I guess she did