Reba McEntire – Fancy (Ukulele)

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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 we 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 a satin

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dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up 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 had stood

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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 don't let me down

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Mama dabbed 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 eyes

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When she started to speak

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She looked at a pitiful shack

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And then she looked at me and took a ragged 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 across

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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 just 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 don't let me down

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Lord forgive me for what I do, 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 you better start movin' uptown

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Well that was the last time I saw my Ma

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The night I left that rickety shack

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The welfare people came and took the baby

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Mama died and I ain't been back

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But the wheel of fate had started to turn

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And for me there was no way out

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And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly

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What my Mama'd been talkin' about

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I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow

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That I's gonna be a lady someday

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Though I didn't know when or how

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I couldn't see spending the rest of my life

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With my head hung down in shame you know

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I might have been born just plain white trash

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But Fancy was my name

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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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And I ain't done bad

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Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits

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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 desparation in my poor

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Mama's voice ringin' in my ear

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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 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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Your Mama's goina help you uptown

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