Fancy - Reba McEntire (Lyrics) Chords

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_ _ _ [E] was the summer I turned 18, [F#] we lived in a one room run down shack [D] on the outskirts of New Orleans.
[F#] We didn't have money for food or rent, [E] to say the least we were hard pressed.
[B] And Mama spent every [F#] last penny we had to [G] buy me a dancing [C#m] dress.
[F#] Mama washed and combed and curled my hair, [B] and she painted my eyes [F#] in linden.
Then I stepped into a satin dancing dress, I [B] had it split from the side, [F#] cleaned up to my throat.
It was red [B] velvet trimming and it fit [F#] me good.
Standing back from the looking glass, there stood a woman [B] wore a half grown kid, [F#] it stood.
She [D] said, here's your one [E] chance fancy, don't let [F#] me _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [B] _ [F#] down.
Mama _ _ _ _ _ got a little bit of perfume on [E] my neck, then she kissed my cheek.
[B] And then I saw the tears welling up in her [D] troubled eyes as she started to speak.
[F#] She looked at her pitiful shack and then she looked [E] at me and took a ragged breath.
She [D#] said, your paw's run off and I'm real sick [D] and the baby's gonna starve to death.
[F#] She handed me a hard sheep locket that said, [E] Thine own self be true.
[B] And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl [D] across the toe of my high heel shoe.
[F#] It sounded like somebody else was talking, [A#] asking mama what do [D#m] I do?
She [B] said, just be nice to the gentleman fancy, [C#] they'll be nice to you.
She [D] said, here's your one [E] chance fancy, _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] don't let [F#] me down.
_ [A] But _ [B] _ _
[D] _ [E] it's up to you, [D] don't let me down, [C#] now your mama's gonna hook [F#] you up down.
_ _ _ Well that was the last time I saw my mama, [E] and I'd have left that rickety shack.
[B] The welfare people came and took the baby, [D] mama died and I ain't been [F#] back.
But the wheels of [C#] fate started to turn [E] and for me there was no way out.
[B] It wasn't very long till I knew exactly [D] what my mama been talking about.
[F#] I _ _ [E] laid myself this son of a bough.
I [D#] was gonna be a lady someday, [D] though I didn't know when or how.
[F#] But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [A#] with my head hung [D#] down in shame.
You [B] know I might have been born just plain white trash, [C#] but fancy clothes were [F#] my name.
She [D] said, here's your one [E] chance _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [B] fancy, don't [F#] let me down. _ _
_ _ _ But long after up in Evelyn, man [Em] took me in off the streets.
[D#] One week later [C] I was born as [G] ten, a five room hotel suite.
[F#] I charmed a king, I conked a slut, and then occasionally [Gm] I rinsed a crack.
[F] And then I got me a Georgia mansion and I never [E] got no pound house, but I ain't [F#] no lazy ass. _
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[F#] _ _ [F#m] _ [F#] Now in this world there's a lot of self [B] righteous, yet the pretty call [F#] me bad.
And criticize mama for turning me out, [B] no matter how little [C#] he had.
[F#] But though I ain't had to worry about not [A#] _ [D#m] drifting years,
well [B] I can still hear the desperation in my poor [C#] mama's voice ringing in [G#] my ear.
[D] Here's your one [E] chance fancy, don't let [F#] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _
[F#] me down.
_ Lord [A] forgive me for [B] _
[D] what I did, but I won't have [E] what is up to you.
[D] Now don't let me down [C#] honey, mama's gonna move [F#] you uptown.
_ _ _ _ Gladness she did.
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