[00:00.000] 作词 : Bobbie Gentry
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Bobbie Gentry
[00:04.960]I remember it all very well lookin' back
[00:07.900]It was the summer I turned eighteen
[00:10.390]We lived in a one-room, run down shack
[00:12.770]On the outskirts of New Orleans
[00:15.370]We didn't have money for food or rent
[00:17.690]To say the least we were hard-pressed
[00:20.250]Then Momma spent every last penny we had
[00:22.730]To buy me a dancin' dress
[00:24.900]Momma washed and combed and curled my hair
[00:27.200]And she painted my eyes and lips
[00:29.730]Then I stepped into the satin dancin' dress
[00:32.060]It was split in the side clean up to my hips
[00:35.340]It was red, velvet-trimmed
[00:37.380]And it fit me good
[00:38.620]And starin' back from the lookin' glass
[00:40.720]Was a woman where a half-grown kid had stood
[00:43.910]"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[00:48.700]Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[00:53.080]Lord, forgive me for what I do (Please)
[00:55.360]But if you want out, well it's up to you
[00:57.600]Now, don't let me down
[00:58.470]Your Momma's gonna help you move uptown"
[01:00.840](Don't let me down, don't let me down)
[01:04.640]Momma dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
[01:07.510]And she kissed my cheek
[01:09.120]Then, I saw the tears well up in her troubled eyes
[01:12.110]When she started to speak
[01:14.130]She looked at our pitiful shack and then
[01:15.390]She looked at me and took a ragged breath
[01:18.830]"Your Pa's runned off, and I'm real sick
[01:20.870]And the baby's gonna starve to death"
[01:23.220]She handed me a heart-shaped locket that said
[01:25.580]"To thine own self be true"
[01:27.930]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
[01:30.060]The toe of my high-heel shoe
[01:32.580]It sounded like somebody else that was talking
[01:34.620]Askin' "Momma what do I do?"
[01:37.270]"Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy
[01:39.220]And they'll be nice to you"
[01:42.080]"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[01:46.620]Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[01:50.910]Lord, forgive me for what I do (please)
[01:53.310]But if you want out, well it's up to you
[01:55.450]Now get on out, girl, you better start movin' uptown"
[02:02.370]Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma
[02:04.570]The night I left that rickety shack
[02:06.860]'Cause welfare people came and took the baby
[02:08.780]Mom died and I ain't been back
[02:11.410]But the wheels of fate had started to turn
[02:13.680]And for me there was no way out
[02:16.110]And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
[02:18.150]What my Momma been talkin' about
[02:20.670]I did what I had to do
[02:22.270]But I made myself this solemn vow
[02:25.370]That I was gonna to be a lady someday
[02:27.420]Though I didn't know when or how
[02:30.100]I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life
[02:31.930]With my head hung down in shame
[02:34.580]I mighta been born just plain white trash
[02:36.640]But Fancy was my name
[02:39.410]"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[02:43.890]Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down"
[02:50.610]Wasn't long after a benevolent man
[02:52.460]Took me in off the street
[02:55.070]And one week later I was pourin' his tea
[02:57.120]In a five-room hotel suite (yes, she was)
[02:59.610]Well, I've charmed a king, a congressman
[03:01.720]And an occasional aristocrat
[03:03.730]And I got me a Georgia mansion
[03:05.280]And an elegant New York townhouse flat
[03:08.010]And I ain't done bad (she ain't done bad)
[03:17.920]Now, in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites
[03:19.960]That would call me bad
[03:21.960]And criticize my Momma for turnin' me out
[03:24.400]No matter how little we had
[03:26.850]And though I ain't had to worry about nothin'
[03:28.750]But now on fifteen years
[03:31.270]I can still hear the desperation
[03:33.230]In my poor Momma's voice ringin' in my ear
[03:36.090]"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[03:40.680]Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
[03:44.870]Lord, forgive me for what I do (please)
[03:47.040]But if you want out, well it's up to you
[03:49.310]Now, don't let me down
[03:50.370]Your Momma's gonna help you move uptown"
[03:55.770]And I guess she did