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 I remember  all very well lookin' back
 It was the summer I  eighteen
 We lived in a one room, rundown 
 On the outskirts of  Orleans
 We didn't have  for food or rent
 To say the least we were hard 
 Then Mama spent every last penny we 
  buy me a dancin' dress
 
 Mama washed and combed and  my hair
 And she painted my eyes and 
 Then I stepped into a satin dancin' dress  had a split from the side clean up to my hips
 It  red velvet trimmin' and it fit me good
 Standin'  from the lookin' glass
 There  a woman where a half grown kid had stood
 
 She said here's your one chance  don't let me down
 She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me 
 
 Mama dabbed a little bit of  on my neck
 Then she kissed  cheek
  then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
  she started to speak
 She looked at our pitiful 
 And  she looked at me and took a ragged breath
 She  your Pa's run'd off, I'm real sick
 And the baby's gonna starve to 
 
  handed me a heart shaped locket that said
 "To thine  self be true"
 And I shivered as I watched a roach  across
 The toe of  high heel shoe
 It sounded  somebody else that was talkin'
 Askin' Mama what do  do
 She said just be nice to the  Fancy
 They'll be nice to 
 
 She said  your one chance Fancy don't let me down
 She said here's  one chance Fancy don't let me down
 Lord forgive me for what I do, but if  want out
  up to you
 don't let me down now your Mama's gonna move  uptown.
 
 That was the last time I saw my 
 The  I left that rickety shack
 The welfare people came and took the 
 Mama died and I  been back
 
 But the wheels of fate had started to 
 And for me there  no way out
 It wasn't very long 'til I  exactly
 What  Mama been talkin' about
 
 I knew what I had to do  I made myself this solemn vow
 I was gonna  a lady someday
  I didn't know when or how
 But I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my 
 With  head hung down in shame
 You know I might have been born just  white trash
 But Fancy was  name
 
 She said here's your  chance Fancy don't let me down
 She said here's your one chance  don't let me down
 
 It wasn't very  after a benevolent man
 Took me in off  streets
 One week later I  pourin' his tea
 In a five room hotel  [yes she was]
 
 I charmed  king, a congressman
 And an  aristocrat
 And then I  me a Georgia mansion
 And an elegant New York townhouse 
 And I ain't gone back [she ain't  back]
 
 Now in  world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites
 That'd  me bad [bad]
 And criticize  for turning me out
 No  how little we had
 
 But though I ain't had to  'bout nothin'
 For  on fifteen years
 I can still hear the desperation  my poor
 Mama's  ringin' in my ear
 
 Here's your one chance  don't let me down
 here's your one chance Fancy don't  me down
 Lord, forgive me for  I do
 But if you  out it's up to you
 don't let me  hon
  gonna move you uptown
 
  and I guess she did.