Reba Mcentire – Fancy chords

Intro
F# A B F#

   F#I remember it all very well lookin' back
           E  It was the summer I turned eighteen
    BWe lived in a one room, rundown shack
       D   On the outskirts of New Orleans
   F#We didn't have money for food or rent
            E      To say the least we were hard pressed
     BThen Mama spent every last penny we had
   D                           To buy me a dancin' dress

 F#Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
        B                   F#and she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
                          B                      F#dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
        F#            B              F#It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
         F#Standin' back from the lookin' glass
                            B                   F#There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood

          D                     E                   F#She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
 A                      B                 F# Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down

     F#                                    EMama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
 
And she kissed my cheek
       B/D#                                        DThen I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
     
When she started to speak
    F#She looked at a pitiful shack
                       EAnd then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
              B/D#               She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick
         D And the baby's gonna starve to death
    F#She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
     E"To thine own self be true"
       B/D# And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
    D  the toe of my high heeled shoe
   F#It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
       A#             D#MAskin' Mama what do I do
          BShe said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
    C# And they'll be nice to you

          D                       E                  F# She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
 A                      B                  F# Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
        A                   B          DLord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
           EWell it's up to you
           D                   C#                      F#Now don't let me down now your Mama's gonna move you uptown

     F#Well that was the last time I saw my Mama
             EThe night I left that rickety shack
     B/D#The welfare people came and took the baby
      D    Mama died and I ain't been back

        F#But the wheel of fate had started to turn
        EAnd for me there was no way out
        B/D#And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
         D     What my Mama'd been talkin' about

  F#                                  EI knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
      B/D#That I's gonna be a lady someday
         DThough I didn't know when or how
  F#I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
         A#                D#mWith my head hung down in shame you know
   BI might have been born just plain white trash
     C#   But Fancy was my name

 D                     E                    F# Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
 A                      B                  F# Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down

   (F#)It wasn't long after a benevolent man
     (E)Took me off the street
     (B)And one week later I was pourin' his tea
     (F#)In a five room hotel suite

   (F#)I charmed a king, a congressman

And an occasional aristocrat

Then I got me a Georgia mansion

In an elegant New York townhouse flat
                 F#     A     B     (F#)And I ain't gone back

    F#                                             BNow in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
             F# That call me bad
 
And criticize Mama for turning me out
   B                    F# No matter how little we had 

But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
    A#               D#m For nigh on fifteen years 
             BWell, I can still hear the desperation in my poor
        C# Mama's voice ringin' in my ears 
 D                       E                   F#"Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
     A                       B                   F# Oh. "Here's your one chance Fancy, don't let me down."
          A                    B "Lord, forgive me for what I do 
        DBut if you want out
           EWell, it's up to you
     D                           C#                    F#Now don't let me down hon, your mama's gonna move you uptown."

And I guess she did

Outro same as intro