Fancy
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Fancy은(는) {albumName} 앨범에 수록된 곡으로 1970년 5월 1일일에 Parlophone Catalogue에서 발매되었습니다.Fancy
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Fancy은(는) 지난 주에 약 35 초 시점에에 가장 많이 검색된 곡입니다.
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뮤직 비디오
뮤직 비디오
크레딧
실연 아티스트
Bobbie Gentry
보컬
작곡 및 작사
Bobbie Gentry
작사가 겸 작곡가
Jimmie Haskell
편곡자
프로덕션 및 엔지니어링
Rick Hall
프로듀서
가사
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
And then I stepped into my satin dancin' dress
It was split on the side, clean up to my hips
Well, it was red, velvet-trimmed and it fit me good
And starin' back from the lookin' glass
Was a woman where a half-grown kid had stood
"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
"Lord, forgive me for what I do (Please)
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
Now don't let me down, your mama's gonna help you move uptown"
And Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume
On my neck, and she kissed my cheek
Then I saw the tears well up
In her troubled eyes when she started to speak
She looked at our pitiful shack, and then
She looked at me and took a ragged breath
"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?"
"And just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy
And they'll be nice to you"
"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
"Lord, forgive me for what I do
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
Now get on out, girl, you better start movin' uptown"
Well, that was the last time I saw my mama
When I left that rickety shack
'Cause 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
It wasn't very long till I knew exactly
What my mama'd been talkin' about
I did what I had to do, but I made myself a solemn vow
That I was gonna be a lady someday, though I didn't know when or how
I couldn't see spending the rest of my life with my head hung down in shame
I mighta been born just plain "white trash"
But Fancy was my name
"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took me in off the streets
And one week later, I was pourin' his tea
In a five-room hotel suite (Yes, she was)
Well, I've charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
And I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done bad (She ain't done bad)
No
Now in this world, there's a lot of self-righteous
Hypocrites that would call me "bad"
And criticize my Mama for turnin' me out
No matter how little we had
And though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothing
For now on fifteen years
I can still hear the desperation
In my poor mama's voice ringing in my ears
"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
"Lord, forgive me for what I do (Please)
But if you want out, well, it's up to you
Now don't let me down, your mama's gonna help you move uptown"
And I guess she did
Written by: Bobbie Gentry
