[ti:Fancy] [ar:Reba McEntire] [al:Women's Day 2021] [by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:00.000] 作词 : Bobby Gentry [00:01.000] 作曲 : Bobby Gentry [00:10.400] I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:12.760] It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:15.480] We lived in a one room rundown shack [00:17.810] On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:20.500] We didn't have money for food or rent [00:22.880] To say the least we were hard pressed [00:25.510] Then mama spent every last penny we had [00:27.810] To buy me a dancin' dress [00:30.490] Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:32.910] And she painted my eyes and lips [00:35.540] Then I stepped into a satin [00:37.040] Dancin' dress that had a split on [00:38.660] The side clean up to my hip [00:41.460] It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:45.690] Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:47.270] There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood [00:50.400] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [00:55.490] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:03.550] Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:06.270] And then she kissed my cheek [01:08.450] Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes [01:11.410] As she started to speak [01:13.730] She looked at our pitiful shack [01:15.190] And then she looked at me and took a ragged [01:17.290] Breath [01:18.580] She said your pa's run'd off and I'm real sick [01:21.010] And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:23.600] She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:26.010] To thine own self be true [01:28.600] And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:31.170] The toe of my high heel shoe [01:33.850] It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:36.170] Askin' mama what do I do [01:38.490] She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy [01:41.400] They'll be nice to you [01:43.630] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:49.130] Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [01:53.400] Lord forgive me for what I do but if you [01:56.890] Want out well it's up to you [01:58.780] Now don't let me down now your mama's gonna move [02:01.090] You uptown [02:06.510] Well that was the last time I saw my ma [02:09.000] The night I left that rickety shack [02:11.630] The welfare people came and took the baby [02:13.970] Mama died and I ain't been back [02:16.610] But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:19.160] And for me there was no way out [02:21.970] When they long 'till I knew exactly [02:24.160] What my mama'd been talkin' about [02:26.930] I knew what I had to do [02:28.740] And I made myself this solemn vow [02:31.770] That I's gonna be a lady someday [02:34.320] Though I didn't know when or how [02:36.810] But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:39.390] With my head hung down in shame [02:41.930] You know I might have been born just plain white trash [02:44.430] But fancy was my name [02:46.940] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me [02:49.540] Down [02:52.020] She said here's your one chance fancy don't let me [02:55.210] Down [02:59.890] It wasn't long after a benevolent man [03:02.140] Took me in off the street [03:04.680] And one week later I was pourin' his tea [03:07.120] In a five room hotel suite [03:09.840] I charmed a king a congressman and an occasional aristocrat [03:14.820] Then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:16.630] In an legant New York townhouse flat [03:19.210] And I ain't done bad [03:30.000] Now in this world there's a lot of self righteous [03:32.670] Hiypocrits that would call me bad [03:35.040] And criticize mama for turning me out [03:37.390] No matter how little we had [03:40.040] But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [03:42.600] For now on fifteen years [03:45.110] Well I can still hear the desperation in my poor [03:47.660] Mama's voice ringin' in my ears [03:50.440] Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [03:55.560] Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down [03:59.840] Lord forgive me for what I do but if you [04:03.320] Want out well it's up to you [04:05.240] Now don't let me down hon your mama's gonna move [04:07.690] You uptown [04:12.070] Oh and I guess she did