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