Tonalidad: F# minor•
Verse 1
F#
F#m
I remember it all very well
F#
looking back
Was the summer I turned eighteen
F#m
F#
We lived in a one room, worn-out shack
shack
F#m
On the outskirts of New Or leans
We didn't have money
F#
for food or rent
To say the least we was hard-pressed
And And mama spent
every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin' dress
Mama washed and combed
and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips
F#m
F#
Stepped into a satin dancin' dress
That had a slit in the side
clean up to my hips
It was red velvet trimming
F#m
and it fit me good
F#
Staring back from the looking glass
There stood a woman where a half-grown
boy boy had stood
F#m
F#
F#m
Verse 2
D
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
F#m
F#
don't let me down
F#m
A
B
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
don't let me down
F#
F#m
F#
Verse 3
Mama dabbed a little bit
of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
I could see the tears welling up
in her troubled eyes
As she started to speak
F#m
She looked at our pi
tiful shack
F#
And then she looked at me and
took a ragged breath
F#m
She said your Pa's run off
and I'm real sick
D
And the baby's gonna starve to death
F#m
F#
She handed me a heart-shaped
locket locket that said
B
E
"To thine own self be true"
B
And I shivered as I watched a roach
E
D
Crawl across the toe of my
high-heeled shoe
shoe
F#m
It soun ded like somebody
else that was talking
F#
D#m
Asking, "Mama what do I do?"
B
She said, "Just be nice to the gentlemen,
C#
Fancy, they'll be nice to you"
Verse 4
D
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
F#
don't let me down
A
B
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
F#
don't let me down
A
B
Lord, forgive me for what I do
D
E
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
D
Don't let me down now,
C#m
F#
F#m
F#
your mama's gonna move you uptown
Verse 5
F#
F#m
That was the last time I saw my Ma
E
The night I left that rickety shack
B
The welfare people came
and took the baby
E
D
Dm
Mama died and I ain't been back
D
F#m
F#
But the wheels of fate had
F#m
star ted to turn
E
And for me there was no way out
B
It wasn't very long till I knew
D
Exactly what my mama'd been talking about
F#m
I knew what I had to do
E
But I made myself this solemn vow
B
Said I was gonna be a lady someday
D
Though it didn't matter when or how
F#m
F#
I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
D#m
With my head held down in shame
B
You know, I might've been
born just plain white trash
C#m
But Fancy was my name
Verse 6
D
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
F#
don't let me down
A
B
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
don't let me down
F#
Verse 7
F#
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
F#m
Took me in off the street
F#
F#m
One week later I was pouring his tea
F#
B
F#m
In a five-room hotel hotel suite
I charmed a king,
a congressman
F#
F#m
And the occasional ar istocrat
I got me a Georgia mansion
B
F#
And an elegant New York townhouse flat and
F#m
F#
F#m
I ain't done bad
A
B
Verse 8
F#
Now in this life
F#m
There's a lot of self-righteous hy
F#
F#m
pocrites hypocrites that call me bad
F#
And criticize mama for turn
F#m
ing me out
B
F#
No matter how little we had
And though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
For now on fifteen years
B
I can still hear the desperation
C#
in my poor mama's voice
Verse 9
Ringing in my ears
D
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
F#
don't let me down
A
B
Here's your one chance, Fancy,
F#
don't let me down
A
B
Lord, forgive me for what I do
D
E
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
D
C#
Don't let me down now, your mama's gonna
F#
F#m
move you Uptown
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