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I remember it all very well lookin' back |
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It was the summer I turned eighteen |
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We lived in a one room, rundown shack |
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On the outskirts of New Orleans |
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We didn't have money for food or rent |
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To say the least we were hard pressed |
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Then Mama spent every last penny she had |
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To buy me a dancin' dress |
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Mama washed and combed and curled my hair |
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And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into |
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a satin' |
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dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up |
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to my hip |
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It was red velvet trim and it fit me good |
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Standin' back from the lookin' glass |
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There stood a woman where a half grown kid |
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had stood |
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She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let |
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me down |
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Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down |
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Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume on my neck |
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And she kissed my cheek |
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Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eys |
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When she started to speak |
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She looked at a pitiful shack And |
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then she looked at me and took a ragged |
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breath |
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She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick |
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And the baby's gonna starve to death |
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She handed me a heart shaped locket that said |
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"To thine own self be true" |
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And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl accross |
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The toe of my high heeled shoe |
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It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' |
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Askin' Mama what do I do |
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She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy |
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And they'll be nice to you |
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She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down |
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Here's your one chance Fancy |
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don't let me down |
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Lord forgive me for what I do, |
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but if you want out |
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Well it's up to you |
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Now don't let me down |
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movin' uptown |
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It wasn't long after that benevolent man |
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Took me off the street |
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And one week later I was pourin' his tea |
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In a five room hotel suite |
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I charmed a king, congressman |
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And an occasional aristocrat |
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Then I got me a Georgia mansion |
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In an elegant New York townhouse flat |
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Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous |
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hippocrates That would call me bad |
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And criticize Mama for turning me out |
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No matter how little we had |
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But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' |
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For nigh on fifteen years |
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I can still hear the desperation in my poor |
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Mama's voice ringin' in my ear |
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here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down |
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Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down |
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Lord, forgive me for what I do |
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But if you want out well it's up to you |
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Now don't let me down |
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You Mama's gonna move you uptown |
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don't let me down |
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You Mama's gonna move you uptown |
