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Reba McEntire
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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 gown 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 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 wheels 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's 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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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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It wasn't very long after a benevolent man
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Took me off the street
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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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I charmed a king, a congressman
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And an occasional aristocrat
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Then I got me a Georgia mansion
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In an elegant New York townhouse flat
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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 hypocrites
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That would 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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I can still hear the desperation 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 gonna move you up town
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I guess she did
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