文本歌词

Fancy(Complete version originally performed by Reba McEntire) - Various Artists (欧美群星)
Well I remember it all very well lookin' back
Was the summer I turned eighteen
Lived in a one room rundown shack
On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
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
Then I stepped into a satin' dancin' dress
That had a split on the side
Clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
There stood a woman
Where a half grown kid had stood
She said here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
She said here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume
On my neck and she kissed my cheek
And then I saw the tears wellin' up
In her troubled eyes as she started to speak
She looked at a pitiful shack
And she looked at me
And took a ragged breath
She said your Pa's runned off
I'm real sick
And the baby's gonna starve to death
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
To thine own self be true
And shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
The toe of my high heeled shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
Askin' mama what do I do
She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
They'll be nice to you
She said here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
Here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
Lord forgive me for what I do
But if you want out well it's up to you
Now don't let me down
Now your mama's gonna move you uptown
That was the last time I saw my ma
Night I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I ain't been back
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
Wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
What my mama'd been talkin' about
I knew what I had to do
And I made myself this solemn vow
That I's gonna be a lady someday
Though I didn't know when or how
But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame
You know I might have been born
Just plain white trash
But Fancy was my name
She said here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
She said here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
Wasn't long after that benevolent man
Took me off the street
One week later I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite
And she why
And charmed a king a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
And then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done bad she ain't done bad
Now in this world
There's a lot of self righteous hypocrites
Call me bad bad
Criticize mama for turning me out
No matter how little we had
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout
Nothing for nigh on fifteen years
Well I can still hear the desperation
In my poor mama's voice ringin' in my ears
Here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
Oh here's your one chance
Fancy don't let me down
Lord forgive me for what I do
But if you want out well it's up to you
Now don't let me down
Now your mama's gonna move you uptown
Oh and I guess she did