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