Fancy chords by Bobby Gentry

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard tuning


INTRO: E minor 7Em7 E MajorE D MajorD

#1.
    E MajorE
Well, I remember it all very well lookin' back..
      D MajorD
it was the summer that I turned eighteen.
  A augmentedA
We lived in a one-room, run down shack on the
C majorC
outskirts of New Orleans.
  E MajorE
We didn't have money for food or rent..to say
  D MajorD
the least we was hard-pressed..
   A augmentedA                   C majorC
when momma spent every last penny we had to buy

me a dancin' dress.

#2.
   E MajorE
Momma washed and combed and curled my hair..
     A augmentedA          G+G
then she painted my eyes and lips.
    E MajorE
Then I stepped into the satin dancin' dress..it had
 A augmentedA            E MajorE
a split in the side, clean up to my hip.
E MajorE         A augmentedA           G+G
It was red, velvet-trimmed and it fit me good.
  E MajorE
And standin' back from the lookin' glass was a woman
    A augmentedA          E MajorE
where a half-growed kid had stood.

CHORUS:
A minorAm           D MajorD          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
G+G            A augmentedA          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
     G+G         A augmentedA     Am7Am7
Lord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out,
      D MajorD
well, it's up to you.
   C majorC            BB            E MajorE
Now, don't let me down, your momma's gonna you move uptown.

#3.
E MajorE
Momma dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck and she
D MajorD
kissed my cheek.
    A augmentedA
Then I saw the tears welling up in her troubled eyes as
C majorC
she started to speak.
  E MajorE
She looked at our pitiful shack and then she looked at me
      D MajorD               A augmentedA
and took a ragged breath..she said, your Pa's runned off
             C majorC
and I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death.

#4.
  E MajorE                       D MajorD
She handed me a heart-shaped locket that said, to thine own

self be true.
   A augmentedA                       C majorC
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across the toe of

my high-heeled shoe.
  E MajorE                       AbAb
It sounded like somebody else was talkin' askin', Momma what
   DbmDbm
do I do?
     A augmentedA                   BB
She said, just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, they'll be nice
  E MajorE
to you.

CHORUS:
A minorAm           D MajorD          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
G+G            A augmentedA          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
     G+G         A augmentedA     Am7Am7
Lord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out,
      D MajorD
well, it's up to you.
C majorC           BB        E MajorE
Get up, now, girl, you best be movin' uptown.

#5.
E MajorE                          D MajorD
Well, that was the last time I saw my momma, when I left that rickety

shack.
  A augmentedA                      C majorC
The welfare people came and took the baby, momma died and I ain't

been back.
    E MajorE                     D MajorD
But the wheels of fate had started to turn and for me there was

no other way out.
  A augmentedA                          C majorC
It wasn't very long after, that I knew exactly what my momma was

talkin' 'bout.

#6.
 E MajorE                  D MajorD
I knew what I had to do, but I made myself this solemn vow..
   A augmentedA                     C majorC
that I was gonna to be a lady someday, though I didn't know when or how.
   E MajorE                         AbAb
But I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life with my head hung
    DbmDbm
down in shame.
 A augmentedA                      BB      E MajorE
I mighta been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name.

CHORUS:
A minorAm           D MajorD          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
G+G            A augmentedA          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.

#7.
  E MajorE
It wasn't long after that a benevolent man took me in off the streets.
D MajorD                     BB           C majorC
One week later I was pourin' his tea in a five roomed penthouse suite.
   DbmDbm        E minorEm
I've charmed a king, a congressman and an occasional aristocrat.
   D MajorD               E MajorE
And I got me a Georgia mansion and a New York townhouse flat..
           G+G A augmentedA E MajorE
now, I ain't done bad.

#8.
E MajorE                         A augmentedA
Now, in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites who call
  E MajorE
me bad.
E MajorE                      A augmentedA          E MajorE
They criticize momma for turning me out, no matter how little we had.
E MajorE                         AbAb       DbmDbm
But I haven't had to worry 'bout nothin', now for nigh on fifteen years.
     A augmentedA                       BB
But I can still hear the desperation in my poor momma's voice ringin' in
  E MajorE
my ears.

CHORUS:
A minorAm           D MajorD          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
G+G            A augmentedA          E minorEm
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.
     G+G         A augmentedA     Am7Am7
Lord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out,
      D MajorD
well, it's up to you.
   C majorC            BB               E MajorE
Now, don't let me down, your momma's gonna help you move uptown.

(And I guess she did.)


OUTRO: E MajorE G+G A augmentedA E..E G+G A augmentedA E..(Fade.)