Tonalidad: F minor
Verse 1
Dm
Fm
Dm
Gm
Dm
I remember
it
all very well lookin' back
Em
C
It was the summer I turned eighteen
G
Gm
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
Bb
On the outskirts of New
Dm
Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
Em
C
To say the least we were hard pressed
G
Then Mama spent every
last penny we had
Gm
Bb
To buy me a dancin' dress
Verse 2
D
washed and combed
and curled my hair
G
And she painted my eyes
D
Dm
and lips then I stepped into
D
A satin dancin' dress that had a
G
D
split on the side clean up
G
It was red velvet trim and it
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
D
There stood a wo man where a
G
Dm
half grown kid had stood
Verse 3
Bb
She said here's your one chance
C
Dm
Fancy don't let me down
F
G
Here's your one chance Fancy
Dm
D
Dm
don't let me down
Verse 4
Dm
Mama dabbled a little bit
C
of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
G
Then I saw the tears wellin' up
Bb
in her troubled eyes
When she started to speak
Dm
She looked at a pitiful shack
C
And then she looked at me
and took a ragged breath
G
She said your Pa's run off and
I'm real sick
Bb
And the baby's gonna starve to death
Verse 5
Dm
She handed me a heart shaped
D
locket that said
C
"To thine own self be true"
G
And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl across
Bb
The toe of my high heeled shoe
Dm
It sounded like somebody
else that was talkin'
F#
Bm
Askin' Mama what do I do
G
She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
A
And they'll be nice to you
Bb
C
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Dm
Dsus4
Dm
don't let me down
F
G
Here's your one chance Fancy
D
Dm
don't let me down
F
G
Lord forgive me for what I do,
Bb
but if you want out
C
Well it's up to you
Bb
A
Now don't let me down you better
D
Dm
start movin' up town
Verse 6
D
Dm
D
Dm
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
D
C
The night I left that rickety shack
G
The welfare people came
and took the baby
Bb
Mama died and I ain't been back
Verse 7
Dm
But the wheels of fate had
started to turn
C
And for me there was no way out
G
And it wasn't very long 'till I knew exactly
C
Bb
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
Verse 8
Dm
I knew what I had to do but I made
C
myself this solemn vow
G
That I's gonna be a lady someday
Bb
Though I didn't know when or how
Dm
D
I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
F#
Bm
With my head hung down in shame you know
G
I might have been born
just plain white trash
A
Bb
But Fancy was my name
Verse 9
Bb
C
Here's your one chance Fancy
Dm
don't let me down
F
Here's your one chance
G
Dm
Fancy don't let me down
Verse 10
Eb
Bb
It wasn't long after that benevolent man
F#
Bb
Took me off the street
Db
Bb
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
Eb
In a five room hotel suite
Verse 11
a king, congressman
Eb
And an occasional aristocrat
Bb
C#
F#
A#
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
F#
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
D#m
And I ain't done bad
F#
G#
Verse 12
Ebm
Eb
Now in this world there's a lot
Ab
of self- righteous hypocrites
Ebm
That would call me bad
Eb
And criticize Mama for turning me out
Ab
Eb
No matter how little we had
Verse 13
Eb
But though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
G
Cm
For nigh on fifteen years
Ab
I can still hear the desperation
in my poor
A#
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
Verse 14
B
C#
here's your one chance Fancy
D#
D#m
don't let me down
F#
G#
Here's your one chance Fancy
D#
don't let me down
D#m
F#
G#
Lord, for give me for what I do
B
But if you want out well
C#
it's up to you
B
Now don't let me down
A#
D#
You Mama's gonna help you uptown
D#sus4
I
Verse 15
Ebm
Ab
did
D#
Ebm
Eb
Verse 16
G#
So listen to Fancy
B
And you pay your Mama good mind
D#
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