《Fancy》歌词

[00:00:00] Fancy - Midday Sun

[00:00:10] I remember it all very well lookin' back

[00:00:12] It was the summer i turned eighteen

[00:00:15] We lived in a one room rundown shack

[00:00:17] On the outskirts of new orleans

[00:00:20] We didn't have money for food or rent

[00:00:22] To say the least we were hard pressed

[00:00:25] Then mama spent every last penny we had

[00:00:27] To buy me a dancin' dress

[00:00:30] Mama washed and combed and curled my hair

[00:00:32] And she painted my eyes and lips

[00:00:35] Then i stepped into a satin

[00:00:36] Dancin' dress that had a split on

[00:00:39] The side clean up to my hip

[00:00:41] It was red velvet trim and it fit me good

[00:00:45] Standin' back from the lookin' glass

[00:00:47] There stood a woman

[00:00:48] Where a half gown kid had stood

[00:00:50] She said here's your one chance

[00:00:52] Fancy don't let me down

[00:00:55] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:01:03] Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck

[00:01:06] And she kissed my cheek

[00:01:07] Then i saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes

[00:01:11] When she started to speak

[00:01:13] She looked at a pitiful shack

[00:01:14] And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath

[00:01:17] She said your pa's run off and i'm real sick

[00:01:20] And the baby's gonna starve to death

[00:01:22] She handed me a heart shaped locket that said

[00:01:25] "to thine own self be true"

[00:01:27] And i shivered as i watched a roach crawl across

[00:01:30] The tow of my high heel shoe

[00:01:33] It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'

[00:01:35] Askin' mama what do i do

[00:01:37] She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy

[00:01:40] And they'll be nice to you

[00:01:42] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:01:47] Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:01:52] Lord forgive me for what i do but if you want out

[00:01:56] Well it's up to you

[00:01:57] Now don't let me down

[00:01:59] You better start movin' uptown

[00:02:05] Well that was the last time i saw my ma

[00:02:07] The night i left that rickety shack

[00:02:10] The welfare people came and took the baby

[00:02:12] Mama died and i ain't been back

[00:02:15] But the wheels of fate had started to turn

[00:02:17] And for me there was no way out

[00:02:20] And it wasn't very long 'til i knew exactly

[00:02:22] What my mama's been talkin' about

[00:02:25] I knew what i had to do

[00:02:26] But i made myself this solemn vow

[00:02:30] That i's gonna be a lady someday

[00:02:32] Though i don't know when or how

[00:02:35] I couldn't see spending the rest of my life

[00:02:37] With my head hung down in shame you know

[00:02:40] I might have been born just plain white trash

[00:02:42] But fancy was my name

[00:02:44] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:02:49] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:02:57] It wasn't very long after a benevolent man

[00:02:59] Took me off the street

[00:03:02] And one week later i was pourin' his tea

[00:03:04] In a five room hotel suite

[00:03:07] I charmed a king a congressman

[00:03:09] And an occasional aristocrat

[00:03:12] Then i got me a georgia mansion

[00:03:14] In an elegant new york townhouse flat

[00:03:16] And i ain't done bad

[00:03:27] Now in this world

[00:03:28] There's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits

[00:03:29] That would call me bad

[00:03:31] And criticize mama for turning me out

[00:03:34] No matter how little we had

[00:03:36] But though i ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'

[00:03:39] For nigh on fifteen years

[00:03:42] I can still hear the desperation in my poor

[00:03:44] Mama's voice ringin' in my ear

[00:03:46] She said here's your one chance

[00:03:48] Fancy don't let me down

[00:03:51] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:03:56] Lord forgive me for what i do

[00:03:59] But if you want out well it's up to you

[00:04:01] Now don't let me down

[00:04:03] Your mama's gonna help you uptown

[00:04:08] I guess she did