Fancy-The Mick Lloyd Connection

[ti:Fancy] [ar:The Mick Lloyd Connection] [al:Reba McEntire 10 #1's Tribute] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fancy - The Mick Lloyd Connection [00:10.22]Well I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:12.55]It was the summer that I turned eighteen [00:15.29]We lived in a one-room run down shack [00:17.74]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:19.62] [00:20.22]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:22.53]To say the least we was hard-pressed [00:24.59] [00:25.31]When Momma spent every last penny we had [00:27.76]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:30.28]Well Momma washed and combed and curled my hair [00:32.88]Then she painted my eyes and lips [00:35.22]Then I stepped into the satin dancin' dress [00:37.60]It had a split in the side clean up to my hips [00:41.22]It was red velvet-trimmed and it fit me good [00:45.45]And standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:47.07]Was a woman [00:48.09]Where a half grown kid had stood [00:50.18]She said Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [00:54.41] [00:54.97]She said Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [00:59.19] [01:03.01]Momma dabbed a little bit of perfume [01:05.47]On my neck and she kissed my cheek [01:07.88]Then I saw the tears welling up [01:09.66]In her troubled eyes as she started to speak [01:12.90]She looked at our pitiful shack and then [01:15.21]She looked at me and took a ragged breath [01:17.20]She said Your Pa's runned off and I'm real sick [01:20.34]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:22.85]She handed me a heart-shaped locket that said [01:24.88]"To thine own self be true" [01:27.68]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:30.31]The toe of my high-healed shoe [01:32.79]It sounded like somebody else was talkin' [01:34.94]Askin' "Momma what do I do " [01:36.71]She said "Just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:40.18]They'll be nice to you " [01:41.65]She said "Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [01:46.34] [01:47.27]Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [01:52.00]God forgive me for what I do [01:55.04]But if you want out girl it's up to you [01:57.52]Now don't let me down [01:58.93]Now get on out you better start sleepin' uptown " [02:02.83] [02:05.48]That was the last time I saw my momma [02:07.71]When I left that rickety shack [02:10.04]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:12.56]Momma died and I ain't been back [02:15.02]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:17.45]And for me there was no other way out [02:20.12]It wasn't very long after that I knew exactly [02:22.34]What my momma was talkin' about [02:25.07]I knew what I had to do [02:27.12]Then I made myself this solemn vow: [02:30.02]I's gonna to be a lady someday [02:32.24]Though I didn't know when or how [02:34.78]But I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life [02:37.33]With my head hung down in shame [02:39.86]You know I mighta been born just plain white trash [02:42.70]But Fancy was my name [02:44.94]She said "Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [02:48.60] [02:49.27]She said Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [02:54.11] [02:57.46]Wasn't long after that a benevolent man [02:59.93]Took me in off the streets [03:02.41]One week later I was pourin' his tea [03:04.88]In a five roomed penthouse suite [03:06.68] [03:07.20]Since then I've charmed a king a congressman [03:09.54]And an occasional aristocrat [03:12.00]And I got me an elegant Georgia mansion [03:14.63]And a New York townhouse flat [03:16.84]Now I ain't done bad [03:19.24] [03:27.07]Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous [03:29.46]Hypocrites who call me bad [03:31.31] [03:31.90]They criticize Momma for turning me out [03:34.37]No matter how little we had [03:36.81]But I haven't had to worry about nothin' [03:39.45]Now for nigh on fifteen years [03:40.92]But I can still hear the desperation [03:43.84]In my poor mommas voice ringin' in my ears [03:46.31] [03:46.83]"Here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [03:50.62] [03:51.66]Oh here's your last chance Fancy don't let me down [03:55.46] [03:56.39]God forgive me for what I do [03:59.33]But if you want out girl it's up to you [04:01.86]Now get on out you better start sleepin' uptown "