Fancy - The Geraldine Fibbers

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Written by：The Geraldine Fibbers

I remember it all very well looking back it was the summer I turned 16

我记得很清楚回首过去那是我十六岁的夏天

We lived in a one room rundown shack on the outskirts of new Orleans

我们住在新奥尔良郊区一间只有一个房间的破旧小房子里

We didn't have money for food or rent

我们连吃饭和房租的钱都没有

To say the least we were hard pressed

至少可以说我们压力很大

And mama scraped every penny she had to by me a satin dancing dress

妈妈拼尽全力给我买了一条绸缎舞裙

Mama washed and combed and curled my

妈妈帮我洗好头发梳好头发

Hair and she painted up my eyes and lips

她精心打扮我的眼睛和嘴唇

Then I stepped into that satin dancing

然后我走进缎子里翩翩起舞

Dress it was slit on the side straight up to my hips

裙子开衩了一直到我的臀部

It was red velvet trimmed and it fit me good

红色天鹅绒的镶边很适合我

And looking back from the mirror was a woman

从镜子里回望过去是个女人

Where a half grown kid had stood

一个半大的孩子曾经站在那里

Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

这是你的一次机会不要让我失望

Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now

你的机会来了亲爱的不要让我失望

Mama looked out our pitiful shack and she

妈妈望着我们可怜的小木屋

Looked at me and took a ragged breath

看着我喘了一口气

She said your pa's run off and

她说你爸爸跑了

I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death

我真的很难受孩子会饿死的

She handed me a heart shape locket that said to thine ownself be true

她递给我一个心型的小盒上面写着你要忠于自己

And I shivered as

我瑟瑟发抖

I watched a roach crawl across the toe of my high heeled shoe

我看见一只蟑螂在我的高跟鞋上爬行

It sounded like someone else who was talking saying mama what should I do

听起来像是别人在说妈妈我该怎么办

Just be nice to the gentlemen fancy and they'll be nice to you

好好待这些有钱人他们也会好好待你

Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

这是你的一次机会不要让我失望

Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now

你的机会来了亲爱的不要让我失望

Lord forgive me for what I do

上帝宽恕我的所做所为

But if you want out girl it's up to you

但如果你想离开姑娘一切取决于你

Get on out now you'd better start moving up town

赶紧离开你最好开始往城里走

Well that was the last time

那是最后一次

I saw my mama when I left that rickety shack

当我离开那摇摇欲坠的房子时我见到了我的妈妈

The welfare people came and took the baby mama died and I ain't been back

福利院的人来带走了我的孩子妈妈去世了我再也没有回来

I did what I had to do but I made myself a solemn vow

我做了我必须做的但我郑重地发誓

That I was gonna be a lady someday though I didn't know where to how

总有一天我会成为一名淑女尽管我不知道该何去何从

I couldn't see spending the rest of

我不愿与你共度余生

My life with my head hung down in shame

我的人生垂头丧气无地自容

I may have been born just plain white trash but fancy was my name

我可能生来就平平无奇可我的名字是花里胡哨

Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down

这是你的一次机会不要让我失望

Here's your chance now fancy don't let me down now

你的机会来了亲爱的不要让我失望

Lord forgive me for what I do

上帝宽恕我的所做所为

But if you want out girl it's up to you

但如果你想离开姑娘一切取决于你

Get on out now you'd better start moving up town

赶紧离开你最好开始往城里走

It wasn't long after a benevolent man took me in off of the streets

不久之后一个好心人把我从街头带走

And one week later I was pouring his tea in a five room hotel suite

一周后我在酒店五个房间的套房里给他倒茶

I charmed a king a congress man and an occasional aristocrat

我迷住了一个国王一个国会议员还有一个贵族

Then I got me a Georgia mansion and an elegant New York townhouse flat

然后我在佐治亚州买了一座豪宅还有一套漂亮的纽约联排别墅

I ain't done bad

我没有做坏事