Tonalidad: F major•
Verse 1
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I remember it all very well lookin' back
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it was the sum mer I turned eighteen
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We lived in a oneroom rundown shack
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on the outskirts of New Orleans
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We didn't have money for food or rent to
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say the least we were hard pressed
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Then mama spent every last penny we had
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to buy me a satin dancin' dress
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Mama washed and combed and curled my
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hair and she painted my eyes and lips
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Then I stepped into my
satin dancin' dress
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That had a split on the side
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clean up to my hips
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It was red velvet trim and it fit me good and star
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in' back from the lookin' glass
There stood a woman where a
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half grown kid had stood
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Here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
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Here's your one chance Fancy
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don't let me down
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on
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my neck and she kissed my cheek
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Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled
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eyes when she started to speak
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She looked at a pitful shack and then she
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looked at me and took a ragged breath
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Your pa's run off and I'm real sick and
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the baby's gonna starve to death
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She handed me a heart shaped locket
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that said to thine owenself be true
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And I shivered as I watched a rouch crawl
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across the toe of my high heeled shoe
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It sounded like somebody else that was
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talkin' askin' mama what do I do
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Just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy and
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they'll be nice to you
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Here's your one chance...
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Lord forgive me for what I do but if
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you want out well it's up to you
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Now don't let me down you
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better start movin' uptown
Well that was the last time I saw my ma
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the night I left that rickety shack
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The welfare people came and took the baby
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mama died and I ain't been back
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But the wheels of fate had started to turn
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and for me there was no way out
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And it wasn't very long till I knew exactly
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what my mama'd been talkin' about
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I knew what I had to do but I made
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myself this solemn vow
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That I was gonna be a lady someday
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though I didn't know when or how
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I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my
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life with my head hung down in shame
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I might have been born just plain white
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trash but Fancy was my name
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Here's your one chance...
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It wasn't long after a benevolent
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man took me off the street
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And one week later I was pourin' his
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tea in a five room motel suite
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I charmed a king a congressman
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and an occasional aristocrat
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Then I got me a Georgia mansion in
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an elegant New York townhouse flat
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And I ain't done bad
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