Fancy-Reba McEntire

[00:11.167]I remember it all very well lookin'back [00:13.470]It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:14.970]We lived in a one room,rundown shack [00:18.741]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:21.594]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:23.745]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:25.550]Then Mama spent every last penny we had [00:28.752]To buy me a dancin'dress [00:31.306]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:33.358]And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into [00:37.181]a satin' [00:38.384]dancin'dress that had a split on the side clean up [00:44.240]to my hip [00:44.890]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:46.952]Standin'back from the lookin'glass [00:48.102]There stood a woman where a half grown kid [00:49.952]had stood [00:51.402]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let [00:53.507]me down [00:56.259]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:04.210]Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:07.263]And she kissed my cheek [01:09.66]Then I saw the tears wellin'up in her troubled eys [01:11.766]When she started to speak [01:13.122]She looked at a pitiful shackAnd then she looked at me and took a ragged [01:19.934]breath [01:20.786]She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick [01:22.588]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:24.50]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:26.801]To thine own self be true [01:29.102]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl accross [01:31.307]The toe of my high heeled shoe [01:34.607]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:36.618]Askin'Mama what do I do [01:39.319]She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:42.72]And they'll be nice to you [01:44.272]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:49.179]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me downLord forgive me for what I do, [01:54.86]but if you want out [01:56.93]Well it's up to you [01:58.948]Now don't let me down you better start [02:00.959]movin'uptown [02:01.459]Well,that was the last time I saw my Ma [02:09.462]The night I left that rickety shack [02:11.17]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:14.527]Mama died and I ain't been back [02:17.80]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:19.782]And for me there was no way out [02:22.334]And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly [02:24.735]What my Mama'd been talkin'about [02:27.536]I knew what I had to do but I made myself this [02:30.488]solemn vowThat I's gonna be a lady someday [02:34.593]Though I didn't know when or how [02:37.543]I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:39.952]With my head hung down in shame you know [02:42.803]I might have been born just plain white trash [02:44.954]But Fancy was my name [02:47.557]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [02:52.464]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:00.620]It wasn't long after that benevolent man [03:02.673]Took me off the street [03:05.473]And one week later I was pourin'his tea [03:07.774]In a five room hotel suite [03:10.579]I charmed a king,congressman [03:12.32]And an occasional aristocrat [03:13.534]Then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:17.635]In an elegant New York townhouse flat [03:19.636]And I ain't done bad [03:30.695]Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous [03:32.499]hippocrates [03:33.48]That would call me bad [03:35.651]And criticize Mama for turning me out [03:37.352]No matter how little we had [03:38.704]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [03:40.504]For nigh on fifteen years [03:45.509]I can still hear the desperation in my poor [03:47.917]Mama's voice ringin'in my ear [03:48.968]She said,here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:55.621]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [04:00.222]Lord,forgive me for what I do [04:03.72]But if you want out well it's up to you [04:05.823]Now don't let me down [04:06.974]You Mama's gonna help you uptown