Chords for Orville Peck - Fancy (Official Audio)

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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ I remember it all very well, looking back, was the summer I turned eighteen.
_ We lived in a one-room worn-out shack on the outskirts of New Orleans.
We didn't have money for food or rent, to say the least, we was hard-pressed.
Mama spent every last penny we had to buy me a dancing dress.
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair, and she painted my eyes and lips.
Stepped into a satin dancing dress that had a slit in the side, clean up to my hips.
It was _ red velvet, trimmin' and it fit me good.
Staring back from the lookin' glass, there stood a woman where a half-grown boy had stood. _ _
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_ _ _ [D] Here's your one-chance fancy, don't let me [F#] down.
_ _ _ [A] Here's your one-chance fancy, don't [F#] let me down. _ _ _ _ _ _
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck and she kissed my cheek.
I could see the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes as she started to speak.
She looked at our pitiful shack and then she looked at me and took a ragged breath.
She said, your paw's run off and I'm real sick and the [D] baby's gonna starve to death.
She [F#] handed me a heart-shaped locket that said, to [B] thine own self be true.
And [B] I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [A] the toe of my high-heeled shoe.
[F#] It sounded like somebody else that was talking, asking, Mama, what do [D#m] I do?
[B] She said, just be nice to the gentlemen fancy, [C#] they'll be nice to you.
_ [D] Here's your one-chance fancy, don't [F#] let me down.
_ _ [A] Here's your one-chance [B] fancy, don't let me [F#] down.
_ Lord, [E] forgive me for what I do, [D] but if you want out, well [E] it's up to you.
And don't let me down now, [C#m] your mama's gonna move you [F#] uptown. _ _ _ _ _ _
That was the last time I saw my mama, [B] the night I left that rickety shack.
The welfare people came and took the baby, [Dm] Mama died and I hanged in bed.
[F#m] But the wheels of fate had started to turn [B] and for me there was no way out.
It wasn't very long till I knew exactly [Dm] what my mama'd been talking about.
[F#] I knew what I had to do, but I made [C#m] myself this solemn vow.
[B] Said I was gonna be a lady someday, [D] though it didn't matter when or how.
I [F#] couldn't see spending the rest of my life with my head held down in shame.
You [B] know I might have been born just plain white [C#] trash, but fancy was [C#m] my name.
[D] Here's your one-chance fancy, don't let [F#] me down. _ _
[A] Here's your one-chance fancy, don't [F#] let me down. _ _
_ _ _ It wasn't long after a benevolent man took me in off the street.
One week later I was pouring his tea in a five-room hotel [F#] suite.
I charmed a king, a congressman, and the occasional aristocrat.
I got me a [F#m] Georgia mansion and an [B] elegant New York townhouse [F#] flat and I ain't done this. _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ Now in this life there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites that call me bad.
And criticize mama for turning me out no matter how little we had.
And though I ain't had to worry about nothing from now on fifteen years,
[B] I can still hear the desperation in [C#] my poor mama's voice ringing in my [D] ears.
Here's your one-chance [D] fancy, don't let me [F#] down.
_ _ [A] Here's your one-chance fancy, don't [F#] let me down.
_ Lord, [B] forgive me for what I [B] do, but if [D] you want out, well it's [E] up to you.
And don't [C#m] let me down now, your mama's gonna [F#] move you uptown.
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