《Fancy》歌词

[00:00:00] Fancy - Bobbie Gentry (芭比·珍翠)

[00:00:05] I remember it all very well looking' back

[00:00:08] It was the summer that I turned eighteen

[00:00:10] We lived in a one-room run down shack

[00:00:13] On the outskirts of new orleans

[00:00:15] We didn't have money for food or rent

[00:00:18] To say the least we was hard-pressed

[00:00:20] When momma spent every last penny we had

[00:00:22] To buy me a dancing' dress

[00:00:25] Momma washed and combed and curled my hair

[00:00:27] Then she painted my eyes and lips

[00:00:30] Then I stepped into the satin dancing' dress

[00:00:32] It had a split in the side clean up to my hips

[00:00:35] It was red velvet-trimmed and it fit me good

[00:00:39] And standing' back from the looking' glass

[00:00:41] Was a woman

[00:00:41] Where a half grown kid had stood

[00:00:44] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

[00:00:49] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

[00:00:53] God forgive me for what I do

[00:00:55] But if you want out girl it's up to you

[00:00:58] Now don't let me down new momma's gonna happy don't uptown

[00:01:01] Know updown

[00:01:03] Don't updown

[00:01:05] Momma dabbed a little bit of perfume

[00:01:07] On my neck and she kissed my cheek

[00:01:09] Then I saw the tears welling up

[00:01:11] In her troubled eyes as she started to speak

[00:01:14] She looked at our pitiful shack and then

[00:01:16] She looked at me and took a ragged breath

[00:01:19] Your pa's runned off and I'm real sick

[00:01:21] And the baby's gonna starve to death

[00:01:23] She handed me a heart-shaped locket that said

[00:01:26] To thine own self be true

[00:01:28] And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across

[00:01:30] The toe of my high-healed shoe

[00:01:32] It sounded like somebody else was talking'

[00:01:35] Askin' momma what do I do

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

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

[00:01:42] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

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

[00:01:51] God forgive me for what I do

[00:01:53] But if you want out girl it's up to you

[00:01:55] Now get on out girl you better start sleeping' uptown

[00:02:02] That was the last time I saw my momma

[00:02:04] When I left that rickety shack

[00:02:07] Cause welfare people came and took the baby

[00:02:09] Momma died and I ain't been back

[00:02:11] But the wheels of fate had started to turn

[00:02:14] And for me there was no other way out

[00:02:16] It wasn't very long after that I knew exactly

[00:02:18] What my momma was talking' 'bout

[00:02:21] I knew what I had to do

[00:02:22] But I made myself this solemn vow

[00:02:25] But our gonna to be a lady someday

[00:02:28] Though I didn't know when or how

[00:02:30] I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life

[00:02:32] With my head hung down in shame

[00:02:35] I mighta been born just plain white trash

[00:02:37] But fancy was my name

[00:02:39] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

[00:02:44] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

[00:02:50] You went long after that a benevolent man

[00:02:53] Took me in off the streets

[00:02:55] One week later I was pouring' his tea

[00:02:57] In a five roomed penthouse suite

[00:02:59] I've charmed a king a congressman

[00:03:02] And an occasional aristocrat

[00:03:04] And I got me an elegant georgia mansion

[00:03:06] And a new york townhouse flat

[00:03:08] Now I ain't done bad

[00:03:18] Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous

[00:03:20] Hypocrites who call me bad

[00:03:22] They criticize momma for turning me out

[00:03:25] No matter how little we had

[00:03:27] I haven't had to worry 'bout nothing'

[00:03:29] For now on fifteen years

[00:03:31] Can still hear the desperation

[00:03:33] In my poor mommas voice ringin' in my ears

[00:03:36] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

[00:03:41] Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down

[00:03:45] God forgive me for what I do

[00:03:47] But if you want out girl it's up to you

[00:03:49] Now don't let me down new mommas gonna happy know uptown