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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1666870,"song":"Fancy","artist":"Bobbie Gentry","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11347586-fancy-chords-by-bobbie-gentry/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1666870?type=chord","rating":4.66808,"votes":41,"content":"Fancy:Bobby Gentry.\r\n#1 CANADIAN RPM, #8 BB ADULT CONTEMPORARY\r\nand #8 COUNTRY on CAPITOL Records in 1970.\r\n\r\nINTRO: [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n#1.\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, I remember it all very well lookin' back..[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nit was the summer that I turned eighteen.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe lived in a one-room, run down shack on the [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\noutskirts of New Orleans.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe didn't have money for food or rent..to say [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                 \r\nthe least we was hard-pressed..[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nwhen momma spent every last penny we had to buy [/tab]\r\n\r\nme a dancin' dress.\r\n\r\n#2.\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMomma washed and combed and curled my hair..[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthen she painted my eyes and lips.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen I stepped into the satin dancin' dress..it had [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\na split in the side, clean up to my hip.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was red, velvet-trimmed and it fit me good.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd standin' back from the lookin' glass was a woman[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nwhere a half-growed kid had stood.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\nLord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out, [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nwell, it's up to you.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]B[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNow, don't let me down, your momma's gonna you move uptown. [/tab]\r\n\r\n#3.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nMomma dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck and she [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nkissed my cheek.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen I saw the tears welling up in her troubled eyes as [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nshe started to speak.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe looked at our pitiful shack and then she looked at me [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand took a ragged breath..she said, your Pa's runned off [/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#4.\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe handed me a heart-shaped locket that said, to thine own [/tab]\r\n\r\nself be true.\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across the toe of [/tab]\r\n\r\nmy high-heeled shoe.\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                                              [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nIt sounded like somebody else was talkin' askin', Momma what [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dbm[/ch]\r\ndo I do?[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                                     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nShe said, just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, they'll be nice [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nto you.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\nLord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out, [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nwell, it's up to you.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]B[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGet up, now, girl, you best be movin' uptown.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#5.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, that was the last time I saw my momma, when I left that rickety [/tab]\r\n\r\nshack.\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe welfare people came and took the baby, momma died and I ain't [/tab]\r\n\r\nbeen back.\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut the wheels of fate had started to turn and for me there was [/tab]\r\n\r\nno other way out.\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt wasn't very long after, that I knew exactly what my momma was [/tab]\r\n\r\ntalkin' 'bout.\r\n\r\n#6.\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI knew what I had to do, but I made myself this solemn vow..[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthat I was gonna to be a lady someday, though I didn't know when or how.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                                                 [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nBut I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life with my head hung [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dbm[/ch]\r\ndown in shame.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                                           [ch]B[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI mighta been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#7.\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                                       \r\nIt wasn't long after that a benevolent man took me in off the streets.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOne week later I was pourin' his tea in a five roomed penthouse suite.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dbm[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI've charmed a king, a congressman and an occasional aristocrat.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd I got me a Georgia mansion and a New York townhouse flat..[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nnow, I ain't done bad.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#8.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNow, in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites who call [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nme bad.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                           [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey criticize momma for turning me out, no matter how little we had.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                 [ch]Ab[/ch]              [ch]Dbm[/ch]\r\nBut I haven't had to worry 'bout nothin', now for nigh on fifteen years.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                                             [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut I can still hear the desperation in my poor momma's voice ringin' in [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nmy ears.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS:\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHere's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\nLord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out, [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nwell, it's up to you.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]B[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNow, don't let me down, your momma's gonna help you move uptown. [/tab]\r\n\r\n(And I guess she did.)\r\n\r\n\r\nOUTRO: E G A E..E G A E..(Fade.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"Fancy:Bobby Gentry.\n#1 CANADIAN RPM, #8 BB ADULT CONTEMPORARY\nand #8 COUNTRY on CAPITOL Records in 1970.\n\nINTRO: Em7 E D\n\n#1.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nme a dancin' dress.\n\n#2.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#3.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#4.\n\n\nself be true.\n\n\nmy high-heeled shoe.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#5.\n\n\nshack.\n\n\nbeen back.\n\n\nno other way out.\n\n\ntalkin' 'bout.\n\n#6.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n#7.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#8.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(And I guess she did.)\n\n\nOUTRO: E G A E..E G A E..(Fade.)\n\n\n\nA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.","chords":["Em7","E","D","A","C","G","Am","Em","Am7","B","Ab","Dbm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Am7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,0,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,1,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"Em7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,0,3,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,3,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}