Luyện nghe bài hát Fancy

I remember it all very well lookin'
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one-room, run shack
On the outskirts of New

We didn't have money for or rent
To say the we were hard-pressed
When momma spent every last we had
To buy me a dress

washed and combed and curled my hair
Then she painted my and lips
And then I stepped into the satin dress
It was split in the side, up to my hips

It was red, velvet-trimmed and it fit me
And standin' back the lookin' glass
Was a
Where a grown kid had stood

"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me
Lord me for what I do
But if you want out, well, up to you
Now don't let me down, your momma's help you move uptown"

Momma dabbed a bit of perfume
On my neck and she my cheek
I saw the tears welling up
In her troubled eyes she started to speak

She at our pitiful shack and then
She looked at me and took a breath
" Pa's runned off and I'm real sick
And the baby's gonna to death"

She me a heart-shaped locket that said
"To own self be true"
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl
The toe of my high-healed

It sounded somebody else it was talkin'
Askin', "Momma do I do?"
"Just be to the gentlemen, Fancy, and
be nice to you"

"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me
Here's one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
forgive me for what I do
But if you want out, well, up to you
Now get on now, girl, you start movin' uptown"

Well that was the time I saw my momma
Then I left rickety shack
Cause the people came and took the baby
Momma and I ain't been back

But the wheels of had started to turn
And for me was no way out
It very long after that I knew exactly
What my momma talkin' about

I what I had to do
But I made myself a vow
But I was gonna to be a lady
I didn't know when or how

I couldn't see spendin' the of my life
With my hung down in shame
I mighta been just plain white trash
But Fancy was my

"Here's one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"

It wasn't long that a benevolent man
Took me in off the
One later I was pourin' his tea
In a five roomed suite

charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional
And it got me a mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse
And I ain't bad

Now in this there's a lot of self-righteous
Hypocrites that would me bad
They criticize ma momma for me out
No how little we had

And though I had to worry 'bout nothin'
Now for on fifteen years
But I can still hear the
In my poor mommas ringin' in my ears

"Here's your one chance, Fancy, let me down
here's your one chance, Fancy, let me down
Lord forgive me for I do
But if you out, well, it's up to you
Now don't let me down, your gonna help you move uptown"
And I she did