Fancy chords by
Katie Melua
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Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I remember
it all very well lookin' back
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It was the summer that I turned eighteen
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We lived in a one- room,
run down shack
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On the outskirts of New Orleans
Verse 2
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We didn't have money for food or rent
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To say the least we were hard- pressed
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When Momma spent every
last penny we had
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To buy me a dancin' dress
Verse 3
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Momma washed and combed
and curled my hair,
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Then she painted my eyes and lips
And I stepped into the satin
dancin' dress
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It had a split in the side
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clean up to my hips
Verse 4
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It was red, velvet- trimmed,
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to fit me good
And standin' back from
the lookin' glass
Was a woman
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F
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Where a half grown kid had stood
Verse 5
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Eb
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"Here's your one chance, Fancy,
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don't let me down!
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Here's your one chance, Fancy,
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don't let me down.
Bb
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Lord forgive me for what I do,
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Eb
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But if you want out then it's up to you
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Don't let me down your momma's
Cm
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gonna help you move uptown"
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Verse 6
Momma dabbed a bit of perfume
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On my neck and she kissed my cheek
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And I saw the tears well up
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In her troubled eyes
when she started to speak
Verse 7
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She looked at our pitiful shack and then
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She looked at me and took
a ragged breath
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Your Pa's run off, and I'm real sick
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Eb
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And the baby's gonna starve to death
Verse 8
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She handed me a heart- shaped
locket that said
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"To thine own self be true"
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And I shivered as I watched
a roach crawl across
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The toe of my high- heal shoe
Verse 9
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It sounded like somebody
else who was talkin'
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Askin', "Momma what do I do?"
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Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy
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And they'll be nice to you"
Verse 10
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Eb
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"Here's your one chance, Fancy,
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don't let me down!
Ab
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Here's your one chance,
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Fancy, don't let me down
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Lord forgive me for what I do,
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Eb
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But if you want out then it's up to you
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Don't let me down,
Cm
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3

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Your momma's gonna help
you move uptown"
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Verse 11
Well that was the last time
I saw my momma
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The night I left that rickety shack
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Cos welfare people came
and took the baby
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Momma died and I ain't been back
Verse 12
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But the wheels of fate
had started to turn
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And for me there was no other way out
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And it wasn't very long
till I knew exactly
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Eb
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What my ma had been talkin' 'bout
Verse 13
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I did what I had to do
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But I made myself a solemn vow
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That I was gonna to be
a lady someday
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Though I don't know when or how
Verse 14
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I couldn't see spendin'
the rest of my life
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A

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Dm
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With my head hung down in shame
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I might have been born
just plain white trash
Cm
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C
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F
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But Fancy was my name
Verse 15
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Eb
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"Here's your one chance, Fancy,
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don't let me down!
Ab
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Here's your one chance,
Fancy, don't let me down.
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Verse 16
It wasn't very long a benevolent man
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Eb
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F
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Eb
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Took me in off the street
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And one week later I was pourin' his tea
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In a five roomed hotel suite.
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Well I've charmed
Verse 17
G
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a king,
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Cm
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3

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a congressman
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Eb
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And an oc casional aristocrat
And I've got me a Georgia mansion
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And an elegant New York townhouse flat.
Interlude 1
Now I ain't done bad
F
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Ab
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F
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Eb
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F
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Verse 18
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Now in this world there's
a lot of self- righteous
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Hypocrites who call me bad
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And criticize Momma for turning me out
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No mat ter how little we had
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And
Verse 19
though I hadn't had
to worry about nothin'
A
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Dm
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For nigh on fifteen years
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I can still hear the desperation
Cm
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In my poor mommas voice
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ringin' in my ears
Verse 20
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Eb
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"Here's your one chance, Fancy,
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don't let me down!
Ab
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Here's your one chance,
F
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Fancy, don't let me down
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Lord forgive me for what I do,
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Eb
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But if you want out then it's up to you
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Don't let me down,
Cm
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Csus4
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Your momma's gonna help you move up town"
Outro 1
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F
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Ab
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F
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Ab
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