I remember it all very well lookin\' back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn\'t have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
to buy me a dancin\' dress
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
and she painted my eyes and lips
then I stepped into a satin dancin\' dress
that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standin\' back from the lookin\' glass
There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood
Chorus:
She said
Here\'s your one chance Fancy don\'t let me down
Here\'s your one chanceI Know It lyrics
I don't know why I thought that I could make you happy
These tears I cry for you are so hopeless, yeah
I don't know why I thought that we were going somewhere
But you grabbed your coat and you were out the door
And now I know you don't care
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I know you're gonna take your love and run
I know you think I'm the foo
Fancy don\'t let me down
Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume on my neck
and she kissed my cheek
Then I saw the tears wellin\' up in her
troubled eyes when she started to speak
She looked at a pitiful shack
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
She said your Pa\'s run off and I\'m real sick
and the baby\'s gonna starve to death
She handed me a heart shaped locket
that said \"To thine own self be true\"
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl
across the toe of my high heeled shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was
talkin\' askin\' Mama what do I do
She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
And they\'ll be nice to you
Lord forgive me for what I do,
but if you want out well it\'s up We Are Lost lyrics
We are lost
On an LA county night
We are lost
In the shadows of our ties
We'll just drive
Til we make it back in time
We'll just drive
Through the highways of our minds
And it looks my way
And I hear you say
It in my mind
But you're not mine
I'm thinking about you
Thinking about you <
to you
Now don\'t let me down you better start movin\' uptown
Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
The night I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I ain\'t been back
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
And it wasn\'t very long \'til I knew exactly
what my Mama\'d been talkin\' about
I knew what I had to do
but I made myself this solemn vow
That I\'s gonna be a lady someday
though I didn\'t know when or how
But I couldn\'t see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame you know
I might have been born just plain white trash
but Fancy was my name
It wasn\'t long after that benevolent man
Took me offDeath In Disguise lyrics
All my life
Working at the factory
The pay looked mighty good to me
When my body was my own
Doctor won't look me in the eye
My youngest child asks why
I won't ever see her grown.
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Now I can feel the darkness
Growing wild inside me
Catching my soul by surprise
You know that you've made it
You got your home, your job, and some go
the street
And one week later I was pourin\' his tea
In a five room hotel suite
I charmed a king, congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain\'t done bad
Now in this world there\'s a lot of self-righteous hypocrites that would call me bad
and criticize Mama for turning me out
no matter how little we had
But though I ain\'t had to worry \'bout nothin\'
for nigh on fifteen years
I can still hear the desperation
in my poor Mama\'s voice ringin\' in my ear
She said, (Chorus)
Lord, forgive me for what I do
But if you want out well it\'s up to you
Now don\'t let me down
You Mama\'s gonna help you uptown
I guess she did
