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