Karaoke Track: Fancy by Reba McEntire (Monster Hits) - Karaoke Nerds

Well I remember if all

Very well Iookin' back
It was the summer
I turned eighteen

We lived in a one room,
Rundown shack

On the ouiskiris
Of New Orleans

We did n'f have money
For food or reniL

To say the least
We were hard pressed

Well Mo mo washed
And combed

And curled my hair
And then pointed
My eyes and lips

Then I stepped into
A satin dancin' dress

That had a split
On the side

Clean up to my hip

She said,

Here's your one chance
Fancy, don't let me down

Mama dubbed 0 Me bit

Of perfume on my neck
Then she kissed my cheek

She said,

Your Po's runned off

And I'm real sick
And the baby's gonna
Starve to death

She handed me
A hearI-shoped locket

That said

To thine own self be true

And I shivered as

Iwafched o roach

Crawl across the foe

Of my high- heeled shoe

It sounded like
Somebody else

That was talkin'
Askin' Ma me,
What do I do

She said, just be nice
To the gentlemen,

Fancy
They'll be nice to you

She said,

Here's your one chance
Fancy, don't let me down

Lord forgive me
For what I do

Buf if you want 001,
Well it's up to you

Now don't let me down,

Now your Ma ma's gonna
Move you Uptown

Well, that was the
Last time I saw my Mu

When I left
That rickety shack

The welfare people come

And took the be by

Mo ma died and

I ain't been back

But the wheels of fate
Had started to turn

And for me there
Was no way ou1

Wadn'f very long
TiI I knew exactly

What my Ma mo'd
Been talkin' about

I knew what I had to do

When I made myself
This solemn vow

She said,

Here's your one chance
Fancy, don't let me down

It wadn'f long after
A benevolent man

Took-a me in
Off the street

One week later

I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite

I charmed a king,
A congressman

And on

Occas io nal a risiocraf

And then I got me a
Georgia mansion

In an elegant New York
Townhouse flat

And I ain't done bad

Now in this world

There's a lot of

Self righteous hypocrites
That call me bad

And criticize Mo mo
For turning me out

No matter
How IiHle we had

But though
I ain't had to worry

Bou1 nofhin'
For nigh on fifteen years

Well I can sii

Hea r the desperation

In my poor Mo ma's voice
Ringin' in my ears

Here's your one chance

Fancy, don't let me down

Woh

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Here's your one chance
Fancy, don't let me down

Lord, forgive me
For what I do

Buf if you want 001,
Well it's up to you

Oh, and I guess she did

Written By Bobbie Gentry.

Copyright Norlhbridge Music Co.

Title: Fancy
Artist: Reba McEntire
Brand: Monster Hits
(25 Other Versions)
Code: MH1001-13
Genres: country, folk, gospel