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