🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Fancy - Reba McEntire

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