《Fancy》歌词

[00:00:00] Fancy - The Geraldine Fibbers

[00:00:01] Written by：The Geraldine Fibbers

[00:00:10] I remember it all very well looking back it was the summer I turned 16

[00:00:15] We lived in a one room rundown shack on the outskirts of new Orleans

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

[00:00:23] To say the least we were hard pressed

[00:00:25] And mama scraped every penny she had to by me a satin dancing dress

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

[00:00:33] Hair and she painted up my eyes and lips

[00:00:35] Then I stepped into that satin dancing

[00:00:37] Dress it was slit on the side straight up to my hips

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

[00:00:45] And looking back from the mirror was a woman

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

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

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

[00:01:11] Mama looked out our pitiful shack and she

[00:01:13] Looked at me and took a ragged breath

[00:01:15] She said your pa's run off and

[00:01:17] I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death

[00:01:20] She handed me a heart shape locket that said to thine ownself be true

[00:01:25] And I shivered as

[00:01:26] I watched a roach crawl across the toe of my high heeled shoe

[00:01:31] It sounded like someone else who was talking saying mama what should I do

[00:01:35] Just be nice to the gentlemen fancy and they'll be nice to you

[00:01:46] Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

[00:01:51] Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now

[00:01:56] Lord forgive me for what I do

[00:01:58] But if you want out girl it's up to you

[00:02:01] Get on out now you'd better start moving up town

[00:02:13] Well that was the last time

[00:02:15] I saw my mama when I left that rickety shack

[00:02:18] The welfare people came and took the baby mama died and I ain't been back

[00:02:23] I did what I had to do but I made myself a solemn vow

[00:02:28] That I was gonna be a lady someday though I didn't know where to how

[00:02:33] I couldn't see spending the rest of

[00:02:35] My life with my head hung down in shame

[00:02:38] I may have been born just plain white trash but fancy was my name

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

[00:02:54] Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now

[00:02:58] Lord forgive me for what I do

[00:03:01] But if you want out girl it's up to you

[00:03:03] Get on out now you'd better start moving up town

[00:03:16] It wasn't long after a benevolent man took me in off of the streets

[00:03:21] And one week later I was pouring his tea in a five room hotel suite

[00:03:26] I charmed a king a congress man and an occasional aristocrat

[00:03:31] Then I got me a Georgia mansion and an elegant New York townhouse flat

[00:03:35] I ain't done bad