Tom: F minor
Verse 1
C#m
Em
C#m
F#m
C#m
I remember
it
all very well lookin' back
D#m
B
It was the summer I turned eighteen
F#
F#m
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
C#m
Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
D#m
B
To say the least we were hard pressed
last penny we had
F#m
A
To buy me a dancin' dress
Verse 2
and curled my hair
F#
And she painted my eyes
C#
Dbm
and lips then I stepped into
Db
A satin dancin' dress that had a
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Db
split on the side clean up
Gb
It was red velvet trim and it
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
Db
There stood a wo man where a
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Dbm
half grown kid had stood
Verse 3
A
She said here's your one chance
B
Dbm
Fancy don't let me down
E
Gb
Here's your one chance Fancy
Dbm
Db
Dbm
don't let me down
Verse 4
Dbm
Mama dabbled a little bit
And she kissed my cheek
Gb
Then I saw the tears wellin' up
When she started to speak
Dbm
She looked at a pitiful shack
B
And then she looked at me
and took a ragged breath
Gb
She said your Pa's run off and
I'm real sick
A
And the baby's gonna starve to death
Verse 5
Dbm
She handed me a heart shaped
B
"To thine own self be true"
Gb
And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl across
A
The toe of my high heeled shoe
Dbm
It soun ded like somebody
else that was talkin'
F
Bbm
Askin' Mama what do I do
Gb
She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
Ab
And they'll be nice to you
A
B
She said here's your one chance Fancy
Dbm
Dbsus4
Dbm
don't let me down
E
Gb
Here's your one chance Fancy
Db
Dbm
don't let me down
E
Gb
Lord forgive me for what I do,
A
Ab
Now don't let me down you better
Db
Dbm
start movin' up town
Verse 6
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Dbm
C#
C#m
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
C#
B
The night I left that rickety shack
F#
The welfare people came
and took the baby
A
Mama died and I ain't been back
Verse 7
C#m
But the wheels of fate had
started to turn
B
And for me there was no way out
F#
And it wasn't very long 'till I knew exactly
B
A
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
Verse 8
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I knew what I had to do but I made
F#
That I's gonna be a lady someday
A
Though I didn't know when or how
C#m
C#
I couldn't see spending
the rest of my life
F
Bbm
With my head hung down in shame you know
F#
I might have been born
just plain white trash
G#
A
But Fancy was my name
Verse 9
A
B
Here's your one chance Fancy
F#
C#m
Fancy don't let me down
Verse 10
D
A
It wasn't long after that benevolent man
F
A
Took me off the street
C
A
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
D
In a five room hotel suite
Verse 11
a king, congressman
D
And an occasional aristocrat
A
C
F
A
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
F
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
F
G
Verse 12
Dm
D
Now in this world there's a lot
G
of self- righteous hypocrites
Dm
That would call me bad
D
And criticize Mama for turning me out
G
D
No matter how little we had
Verse 13
D
But though I ain't had to worry
'bout nothin'
F#
Bm
For nigh on fifteen years
G
I can still hear the desperation
in my poor
A
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
Verse 14
Bb
C
here's your one chance Fancy
D
Dm
don't let me down
F
G
Here's your one chance Fancy
Dm
F
G
Lord, for give me for what I do
Bb
But if you want out well
A
D
You Mama's gonna help you uptown
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I
Verse 15
Dm
G
did
D
Dm
D
Verse 16
Bb
And you pay your Mama good mind
D
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