CAPO on 2
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Well I re E member it all very well lookin' back
It was the D summer I turned eighteen
We A lived in a one-room, run-down shack
On the C outskirts of New Orleans
We E didn't have money for food or rent
To say the l D east we were hard-pressed
Then A Mama spent every last penny we had
To buy C me a dancin' dress
Well Mama E washed and combed and curled my hair
Then she A painted my eyes and l E ips
Then I s E tepped into a satin dancin' dress
That had a s A plit on the side clean u E p to my hip
E It was red, velvet A trimmin' and it fit me E good
Standin' E back from the lookin' glass
There stood a woman where a A half-grown kid had s E tood
CHORUS:
She said C here's your one chance F D ancy don't let me E down
She said G here's your one chance F A ancy don't let me E down (stay on E for 4)
Mama E dabbed a little bit of perfume on my D neck then she kissed my cheek
And I A saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled e C yes as she started to speak
She E looked at our pitiful shack
And then she looked at m D e and took a ragged breath
She said your A Pa's runned off, and I'm real sick
And the b C aby's gonna starve to death
She E handed me a heart-shaped locket that said
"To D thine own self be true"
And I A shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
the C toe of my high-heeled shoe
It E sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
Askin' G# Mama what do I C# do?
She said A just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy,
Th B ey'll be nice to you
CHORUS:
She said C here's your one chance F D ancy don't let me E down
H G ere's your one chance F A ancy don't let me E down
Lord forg G ive me for what I A do, but if y C ou want out
Well it's D up to you
Now don't C let me down now, yo' B Mama's gonna move you up E town (stay on E for 4)
Well E that was the last time I saw my Ma
The night I D left that rickety shack
The A welfare people came and took the baby
Mama C died and I ain't been back
But the E wheels of fate had started to turn
And for D me there was no way out
It A wadn't very long 'til I knew exactly
What my C Mama'd been talkin' about
I E knew what I had to do and I made my D self this solemn vow
That A I's gonna be a lady someday
Though I C didn't know when or how
But I E couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life
With my G# head hung down in C# shame
You know I A might have been born just plain white trash
But F B ancy was my name
CHORUS:
She said C here's your one chance F D ancy don't let me E down
She said G here's your one chance F A ancy don't leeeeeet me E down (stay on E for 4)
* Guitar in next verse is played almost as percussion
* Fret-hand dampens strings, pick-hand keeps tempo
Wadn't long after a benevolent man
Took me in off the streets
One week later I was pourin' his tea
In a five-room hotel suite
I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
And then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done bad * Guitar comes back in...
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Now E in this world there's a lot of self-righteous A hippocrites
That call me E bad
And E criticize Mama for turning me out
No A matter how little we E had
But E though I ain't had to worry about nothin'
For G# nigh on fifteen C# years
I can A still hear the desperation in my poor
Mama's v B oice ringin' in my ears
She said C here's your one chance F D ancy don't let me E down, woah
H G ere's your one chance F A ancy don't let me E down
Lord forg G ive me for what I A do, but if y C ou want out
Well it's D up to you
Now don't C let me down hon, yo' B Mama's gonna move you up E town
Oh And I guess she d E id...
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(repeat to end)
Guitar solo (open strings correspond to CAPO on 2).
Reba McEntire
Fancy
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