Fancy Chords by Reba McEntire

[Start]

[Verse]
F# A F#                                              
■  ■ ■  Well I remember it all very well lookin' back
       E                           
It was the summer I turned eighteen
   E                                
We 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
B                                      
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
       B                 
To buy me a dancin' dress
   F#7                                      
My mama washed and combed and curled my hair
             B                               F#                  
And then she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
                         B                         F#          
Dancin' dress that had a split from the side clean up to my hip
                  B                      
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
F#                                  
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
                            B                      
There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood


[Chorus]
         D                      E                  F#7 
She said Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
         A                      B                  F#7 
She said Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down


[Verse]
                            F#                
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
E                       
Then she kissed my cheek
           B                     D#m                D   
And then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
       D               
As she started to speak
F#7                            
She looked at our pitiful shack
                       E                          
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
              B                                
She said Your pa's runned 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                                         
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
    D                       
The toe of my high heel shoe
   F#                                       
It sounded like somebody else it was talkin'
                      D#m
Askin' Mama what do I do 
         B                                  
She said Just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
C#                    
They'll be nice to you


[Chorus]
         D                     E                  F#7 
She said Here's your onechance Fancy don't let me down
A                      B                  F#7 
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
     A                     B 
Lord forgive me for what I do
       D                      E        
But if you want out well it's up to you
          D              
Now don't let me down now
C#7                        F#7   
Your mama's gonna move you uptown


[Verse]
F#                                        
■  Well that was the last time I saw my ma
            E                      
The night I left that rickety shack
    B                                    
The welfare people came and took the baby
D                              
Mama died and I ain't been back
        F#7                               
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
        E                      
And for me there was no way out
   B                                   
It wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
     D                         
What my mama been talkin' about
  F#                                E                     
I knew what I had to do when I made myself this solemn vow
B7                              
That I's gonna be a lady someday
         D                     
Though I don't know when or how
      F#                                       
But I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
        A#                D#m  
With my head hung down in shame
           B                                          
You know I might have been born just plain white trash
    C#    C#7        
But Fancy was my name


[Chorus]
         D                      E               F#7    
She said Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
         A                      B               F#7    
She said Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down


[Bridge]
C#m7                   F#            
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
     F#                   
Took me in off the streets
F#                                  
One week later I was pourin' his tea
     F#                   
In a five room hotel suite
  F#                          
I charmed a king a congressman
       F#                   
And an occasional aristocrat
           F#                      
And then I got me a Georgia mansion
               F#                     
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
                 F#7
And I ain't done bad
A B B7 B F#7
■ ■ ■  ■ ■  


[Verse]
                                                 B7        
Now in this world there's a lot of selfrighteous hypocrites
B              F# 
That'd call me bad
    F#                               
And criticize mama for turning me out
B                          
No matter how little we had
F#                                           
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
    A#7     D#m          
For nigh on fifteen years
           B                         
Well I can still hear the desperation
           C#                             
In my poor mama's voice ringin' in my ears


[Chorus]
D                      E                  F#7 
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
   A                      B                  F#   F#7 F#
Oh here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down ■   ■ 
A                          B 
Lord forgive me for what I do
       D                      E        
But if you want out well it's up to you
          D              
Now don't let me down hun
     C#7                   F#7   
Your mama's gonna move you uptown
                   F#7
Oh and I guess she did


[Outro]
A B7 F#7 E F#7 A B7 F#7
■ ■  ■   ■ ■   ■ ■  ■  
A B7 F#7
■ ■  ■  


[End]