Fancy

Mariska · **Posted:** Oct 26, 2008 10:08 pm

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=fik2WQb3uo0

discus here

Ronald · **Posted:** Oct 26, 2008 10:17 pm

I remember it all very well lookin' back
It was the summer that 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
when Momma spent every last penny we had
to buy me a dancin' dress.

Momma washed and combed and curled my hair,
then she painted my eyes and lips.
And I stepped into the satin dancin' dress.
It had a split in the side clean up to my hips.

It was red, velvet-trimmed, to fit me good
and standin' 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,
But if you want out then it's up to you
Don’t let me down your momma’s gonna help you move uptown."

Momma dabbed a bit of perfume
on my neck and she kissed my cheek
And 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-heal shoe

It sounded like somebody else who was talkin'
askin', "Momma what do I do?"
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 then it's up to you
Don't let me down,
Your momma’s gonna help you move uptown."

Well that was the last time I saw my momma
The night I left that rickety shack
Cos welfare people came and took the baby.
Momma died and I ain't been back.

But the wheels of fate had started to turn
and for me there was no other way out.
And it wasn't very long till I knew exactly
what my ma had been talkin' 'bout.

I did what I had to do.
But I made myself a solemn vow:
That I was gonna to be a lady someday
though I don't know when or how.

I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life
with my head hung down in shame.
I might have 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 very long a benevolent man
took me in off the street
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
in a five roomed hotel suite.

Well I've charmed a king, a congressman
and an occasional aristocrat
and I’ve got me a Georgia mansion
and an elegant New York townhouse flat.

Now I ain't done bad

Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous
hypocrites who call me bad.
And criticize Momma for turning me out
No matter how little we had.

And though I hadn’t had to worry about nothin'
For nigh on fifteen years
I can still hear the desperation
in my poor mommas voice ringin' 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,
But if you want out then it's up to you
Don't let me down,
Your momma’s gonna help you move uptown."

Written by Bobby Gentry
Published by Universal / MCA Music Ltd
From the single 'Shy Boy'

Great song :music:

Lepton · **Posted:** Oct 26, 2008 10:41 pm

A really good live song, what a pity she doesn't play it any longer.

Very different from most of her other songs, but still very good. :music:

duw1427 · **Posted:** Oct 26, 2008 10:53 pm

Sorry, I don't like it.

JosCR66 · **Posted:** Oct 27, 2008 11:12 am

One of my favourite live songs. Very sassy delivery by Katie and kind of precursor to TBF. Love it!!!!!! :music:

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

I love this song. Great melodie, amazing lyrics and Katie in Top form.

Unbelievable that Katie is able to sing that quick!!!

Mariska · **Posted:** Oct 27, 2008 6:18 pm

yeah she really has to sing it fast, i think its a great version, every artist who covered this song does it differently... i also like the reba mcntyre version of it

MK64 · **Posted:** Oct 27, 2008 6:57 pm

Yeah, it's fast. As a Rapfan I have to say she has a nice Flow

kyraaah · **Posted:** Oct 27, 2008 7:07 pm

I love this song.. The lyrics are absolutely incredible!
Katie did it very well, awesome live-song!

loco · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 12:08 am

this song is brilliant

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 12:25 am

KEWA wrote:

I love this song. Great melodie, amazing lyrics and Katie in Top form.

Unbelievable that Katie is able to sing that quick!!!

Yes I can't manage to follow :lol:

Really greatly sung, it's close to my favourites :approve:

goodbyemrsaddam · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 1:05 am

One of my favorites as well. Always wanted to hear a studio version, but maybe the fact it's a live edition adds that little bit extra to it. I dunno

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 1:08 am

Yes I think so, I'm not sure I want a studio version

goodbyemrsaddam · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 1:21 am

I would! No live extra magic or not, I have always wanted to hear a studio version of it, to see if it holds up to her performance of it in concert. It's just one of those songs that really gets me out of my seat. Always surprised it was never a studio b-side, twas certainly one of her better covers.

Ronald · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 1:22 am

I'm very curious on how a studio version would sound like

goodbyemrsaddam · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 1:28 am

Same. Which is part of the reason am annoyed there never was a studio edition. Too late now I suppose

Nats · **Joined:** Apr 1, 2008 **Posts:** 1251 **Location:** SA

Sounds like Katie is branching off into mainstream pop. Still a great song, reminds me a bit of Fleetwood Mac and Bob Dylan style!

Patreides · **Posted:** Nov 3, 2008 3:43 am

Nats wrote:

Sounds like Katie is branching off into mainstream pop. Still a great song, reminds me a bit of Fleetwood Mac and Bob Dylan style!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ZCrMESar8

ania69 · **Posted:** Dec 15, 2008 9:25 pm

Can i say without offensing someone, I REALLY prefere the Katie's version.
but thanks , it's a collector :approve:

I love that FANCY, played in my car on the way to go to work between Mockingbird song and On the road Again !!
they really get me such a good energy !

WAOOOOWW

even it's too fast for me , i can sing a bit of the chorus.

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Dec 16, 2008 4:03 pm

Do you really think you can offense somebody saying that? Katie's version rocks!

meiisa · **Posted:** Feb 26, 2009 10:46 pm

When I first started to check out some more of Katie's songs, other than TCTTC, IYWAS and NMB (which were the one's that were most known in Norway), I found this fantastic version of Fancy sung by Katie. The first twenty times I heard it, the only words I knew from the lyrics were "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down!", but after some serious listening, and we're talking KEWA style here people, I've been able to learn all of it. It's so amazing and I love the way she sings so fast. My two favorite parts of the song is:

Quote:

Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy.
And they'll be nice to you."

and

Quote:

I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life
with my head hung down in shame.
I might have been born just plain white trash.
but Fancy was my name.

You GO girl!

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

For me it is also stunning, that Katie can sing that quick and still are bringing her divine magic into her voice. Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you feel them. It is a very sad song, and Katie shows that in a brilliant way, also the hopeless situation of Fancy is coming over perfectly. Katie, absolutely unbelievable

daniel625 · **Posted:** May 16, 2009 11:58 pm

I love this song, it's so catchy and fun!

Katie's version is definitely the best

Ootsie · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 12

Isn't "fancy" a song from a movie?

Ootsie · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 12

woow! there are lot of words to memorize with the lyrics!..the mistake is letal lol

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