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Reba Mcentire
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(Bobbie Gentry)
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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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Well, Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
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And she painted my eyes and lips (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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And 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 heel 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 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 hon, you're momma's gonna move you 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 wheels of fate had started to turn
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And for me there was no way out
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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 don't know when or how
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But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
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With my head hung down in shame
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You know, I mighta been born just plain white trash
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But Fancy was my name
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She said "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
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She said "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
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It wasn't very long after a benevolent man
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Took me in off the streets
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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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(Yes she was)
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I charmed a king, a congressman
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And an occasional aristocrat
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And then I got me a Georgia mansion
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And an elegant New York townhouse flat
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And I ain't done bad
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(And she ain't done bad)
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Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
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That 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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Well, I can still hear the desperation in my poor
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Mama's voice ringin' in my ears
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"Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
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Oh. "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
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Well, it's up to you
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Now don't let me down hon, your mama's gonna move you uptown. "
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Oh, and I guess she did
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