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