《Fancy》歌词

歌曲： Fancy

所属专辑：Fancy

歌手： Bobbie Gentry

时长： 04:19

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Fancy - Bobbie Gentry (芭比·珍翠)[00:00:00]

I remember it all very well looking' back[00:00:05]

It was the summer that I turned eighteen[00:00:08]

We lived in a one-room run down shack[00:00:10]

On the outskirts of new orleans[00:00:13]

We didn't have money for food or rent[00:00:15]

To say the least we was hard-pressed[00:00:18]

When momma spent every last penny we had[00:00:20]

To buy me a dancing' dress[00:00:22]

Momma washed and combed and curled my hair[00:00:25]

Then she painted my eyes and lips[00:00:27]

Then I stepped into the satin dancing' dress[00:00:30]

It had a split in the side clean up to my hips[00:00:32]

It was red velvet-trimmed and it fit me good[00:00:35]

And standing' back from the looking' glass[00:00:39]

Was a woman[00:00:41]

Where a half grown kid had stood[00:00:41]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:00:44]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:00:49]

God forgive me for what I do[00:00:53]

But if you want out girl it's up to you[00:00:55]

Now don't let me down new momma's gonna happy don't uptown[00:00:58]

Know updown[00:01:01]

Don't updown[00:01:03]

Momma dabbed a little bit of perfume[00:01:05]

On my neck and she kissed my cheek[00:01:07]

Then I saw the tears welling up[00:01:09]

In her troubled eyes as she started to speak[00:01:11]

She looked at our pitiful shack and then[00:01:14]

She looked at me and took a ragged breath[00:01:16]

Your pa's runned off and I'm real sick[00:01:19]

And the baby's gonna starve to death[00:01:21]

She handed me a heart-shaped locket that said[00:01:23]

To thine own self be true[00:01:26]

And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across[00:01:28]

The toe of my high-healed shoe[00:01:30]

It sounded like somebody else was talking'[00:01:32]

Askin' momma what do I do[00:01:35]

She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy[00:01:37]

They'll be nice to you[00:01:40]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:01:42]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:01:47]

God forgive me for what I do[00:01:51]

But if you want out girl it's up to you[00:01:53]

Now get on out girl you better start sleeping' uptown[00:01:55]

That was the last time I saw my momma[00:02:02]

When I left that rickety shack[00:02:04]

Cause welfare people came and took the baby[00:02:07]

Momma died and I ain't been back[00:02:09]

But the wheels of fate had started to turn[00:02:11]

And for me there was no other way out[00:02:14]

It wasn't very long after that I knew exactly[00:02:16]

What my momma was talking' 'bout[00:02:18]

I knew what I had to do[00:02:21]

But I made myself this solemn vow[00:02:22]

But our gonna to be a lady someday[00:02:25]

Though I didn't know when or how[00:02:28]

I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life[00:02:30]

With my head hung down in shame[00:02:32]

I mighta been born just plain white trash[00:02:35]

But fancy was my name[00:02:37]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:02:39]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:02:44]

You went long after that a benevolent man[00:02:50]

Took me in off the streets[00:02:53]

One week later I was pouring' his tea[00:02:55]

In a five roomed penthouse suite[00:02:57]

I've charmed a king a congressman[00:02:59]

And an occasional aristocrat[00:03:02]

And I got me an elegant georgia mansion[00:03:04]

And a new york townhouse flat[00:03:06]

Now I ain't done bad[00:03:08]

Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous[00:03:18]

Hypocrites who call me bad[00:03:20]

They criticize momma for turning me out[00:03:22]

No matter how little we had[00:03:25]

I haven't had to worry 'bout nothing'[00:03:27]

For now on fifteen years[00:03:29]

Can still hear the desperation[00:03:31]

In my poor mommas voice ringin' in my ears[00:03:33]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:03:36]

Here's your last chance fancy don't let me down[00:03:41]

God forgive me for what I do[00:03:45]

But if you want out girl it's up to you[00:03:47]

Now don't let me down new mommas gonna happy know uptown[00:03:49]