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kasey tyndall - fancy (live from the ryman) lyrics

[intro]
i don’t know about y’all
i do not know about y’all but i feel a little bit fancy tonight

[verse 1]
well, i remember it all very well lookin’ back, it was the summer i turned eighteen
we lived in a one+room, run+down shack on the outskirts of new orleans
we didn’t have money for food or rent, to say the least we were hard+pressed
and 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
then i stepped into a satin dancin’ dress that had a split from the side clean up to my hip
it was red velvet trim and it fit me good
standin’ back from the lookin’ glass
there stood a woman where a half+grown kid had stood

[chorus]
she said, “here’s your one chance, fancy, don’t let me down”
she said, “here’s your one chance, fancy, don’t let me down”

[verse 2]
mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck, then she kissed my cheek
and then i saw the tears wellin’ up in her troubled eyes as she started to speak
she looked at her pitiful shack and then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
she said, “your pa’s runned 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?”
she said, “just be nice to the gentlemen, fancy
they’ll be nice to you”
[chorus]
she said, “here’s your one chance, fancy, don’t let me down”
she said, “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 don’t let me down
now your mama’s gonna move you uptown”

[verse 3]
well, that was the last time i saw my ma, the night i left that rickety shack
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 ’til i knew exactly what my mama’d been talkin’ about
i knew what i had to do and i made myself this solemn vow
that i’s gonna be a lady someday though i didn’t know when or how
but i couldn’t see spending the rest of my life with my head hung down in shame
you know i might’ve been born just plain white trash
but fancy was my name

[chorus]
she said, “here’s your one chance, fancy, don’t let me down”
she said, “here’s your one chance, fancy, don’t let me down”

[verse 4]
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
i charmed a king, a congressman and an occasional aristocrat, hey
and then i got me a georgia mansion and an elegant new york townhouse flat
and i ain’t done bad
[verse 5]
now in this world, there’s a lot of self+righteous hypocrites that call me bad
they criticize mama for turning me out no matter how little we had
but though i ain’t had to worry about nothin’ for now on fifteen years
well, i can still hear the desperation in my poor mama’s voice ringin’ in my ears

[chorus]
“here’s your one chance, fancy, don’t let me down”
she said, “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 don’t let me down
now your mama’s gonna move you uptown,” hey
well, i guess she did

[outro]
y’all give it up for this badass band one more time
now we’re getting the party started

- kasey tyndall lyrics

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