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