Chords with lyrics
Intro
F#F# 
A augmentedA 
BB F#F#
F#F#
I remember it all very well lookin' back
E MajorE
It was the summer I turned eighteen
BB
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
D MajorD
On the outskirts of New Orleans
F#F#
We didn't have money for food or rent
E MajorE
To say the least we were hard pressed
BB
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
D MajorD
To buy me a dancin' dress
F#F#
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
BB F#F#
and she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
BB F#F#
dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
F#F# BB F#F#
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
F#F#
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
BB F#F#
There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood
D MajorD E MajorE F#F#
She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
A augmentedA BB F#F#
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
F#F# E MajorE
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
B/D#B/D# D MajorD
Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
When she started to speak
F#F#
She looked at a pitiful shack
E MajorE
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
B/D#B/D#
She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick
D MajorD
And the baby's gonna starve to death
F#F#
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
E MajorE
"To thine own self be true"
B/D#B/D#
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
D MajorD
the toe of my high heeled shoe
F#F#
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
A#A# D#M
Askin' Mama what do I do
BB
She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
C#C#
And they'll be nice to you
D MajorD E MajorE F#F#
She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
A augmentedA BB F#F#
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
A augmentedA BB D MajorD
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
E MajorE
Well it's up to you
D MajorD C#C# F#F#
Now don't let me down now your Mama's gonna move you uptown
F#F#
Well that was the last time I saw my Mama
E MajorE
The night I left that rickety shack
B/D#B/D#
The welfare people came and took the baby
D MajorD
Mama died and I ain't been back
F#F#
But the wheel of fate had started to turn
E MajorE
And for me there was no way out
B/D#B/D#
And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
D MajorD
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
F#F# E MajorE
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
B/D#B/D#
That I's gonna be a lady someday
D MajorD
Though I didn't know when or how
F#F#
I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
A#A# 
D#mD#m
With my head hung down in shame you know
BB
I might have been born just plain white trash
C#C#
But Fancy was my name
D MajorD E MajorE F#F#
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
A augmentedA BB F#F#
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
(F#F#)
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
(E MajorE)
Took me off the street
(BB)
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
(F#F#)
In a five room hotel suite
(F#F#)
I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
F#F# A augmentedA BB (F#F#)
And I ain't gone back
F#F# BB
Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
F#F#
That call me bad
And criticize Mama for turning me out
BB F#F#
No matter how little we had
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
A#A# D#mD#m
For nigh on fifteen years
BB
Well, I can still hear the desperation in my poor
C#C#
Mama's voice ringin' in my ears
D MajorD E MajorE F#F#
"Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
A augmentedA BB F#F#
Oh. "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
A augmentedA BB
"Lord, forgive me for what I do
D MajorD
But if you want out
E MajorE
Well, it's up to you
D MajorD C#C# F#F#
Now don't let me down hon, your mama's gonna move you uptown."
And I guess she did
Outro same as intro
