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