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