I remember it all very well lookin' back 我记得非常值得回首

It was the summer I turned eighteen 那是我刚满18岁的夏天

We lived in a one room, rundown shack 我们住的是一个房间，破旧的窝棚

On the outskirts of New Orleans 在新奥尔良郊区

We didn't have money for food or rent 我们没有钱买食物或出租

To say the least we were hard pressed 如果说我们是很难最低

Then Mama spent every last penny we had 然后妈妈用了，我们有充分的最后一分钱

To buy me a dancin' dress 给我买跳舞裙

   

Mama washed and combed and curled my hair 妈妈洗净，梳理和卷曲的头发

And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into 她画​​我的眼睛和嘴唇，然后我走进

a satin' 缎“

dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up 跳舞衣服，对身边的分裂清理

to my hip 我的臀部

It was red velvet trim and it fit me good 它是红色天鹅绒内饰，它适合我好

Standin' back from the lookin' glass “从回来看”玻璃Standin

There stood a woman where a half grown kid 还有站在那里半成长的孩子的女人

had stood 已经站

   

She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let 她说，这里是你的一个机会花式别让

me down 我失望

Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down 这是你的一个机会花式不要让我失望

   

Mama dabbled a little bit of perfume on my neck 妈妈涉足香水一点点在我的脖子

And she kissed my cheek 她吻了我的脸颊

Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eys 然后，我看到眼泪韦兰“在她陷入困境的余仁生

When she started to speak 当她开始说话

She looked at a pitiful shackAnd then she looked at me and took a ragged 她看着可怜shackAnd然后她看着我，带着一个衣衫褴褛

breath 呼吸

She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick 她说你爸的跑了出去，我真有病

And the baby's gonna starve to death 和宝宝的会饿死

   

She handed me a heart shaped locket that said 她递给我一个心脏形小盒的说

"To thine own self be true" “为了你自己的自我是真实的”

And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl accross 我颤抖着，我看到一只蟑螂爬翻过

The toe of my high heeled shoe 我的高跟鞋鞋的脚趾

It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' 这听起来像别人说是谈

Askin' Mama what do I do 阿斯金妈妈​​我该怎么办

She said be nice to the gentlemen Fancy 她说，是很好的绅士花式

And they'll be nice to you 他们会是不错的你

She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down 她说，这里是你的一个机会花式不要让我失望

Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me downLord forgive me for what I do, 这是你的一个机会花式不要让我downLord原谅我我做什么，

but if you want out 但如果你想出去

Well it's up to you 那么这是给你

Now don't let me down you better start 现在，不要让我失望，你最好开始

movin' uptown 往前住宅区

   

Well, that was the last time I saw my Ma 嗯，这是我最后一次看到我的马

The night I left that rickety shack 那个晚上，我离开了那摇摇晃晃的棚屋

The welfare people came and took the baby 福利的人来了，把宝宝

Mama died and I ain't been back 妈妈死了，我是不是回来了

   

But the wheels of fate had started to turn 但命运的车轮已经开始转动

And for me there was no way out 对我来说，没有出路

And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly 那不是很长，直到我清楚地知道

What my Mama'd been talkin' about 什么我Mamad一直在说约

   

I knew what I had to do but I made myself this 我知道我不得不这样做，但我做了自己该

solemn vowThat I's gonna be a lady someday 庄严vowThat一世的会是一位女士有一天

Though I didn't know when or how 虽然我不知道何时或如何

I couldn't see spending the rest of my life 我看不到我的花费余生

With my head hung down in shame you know 把我的头羞愧垂下你知道

I might have been born just plain white trash 我可能已经出生只是普通的白色垃圾

But Fancy was my name 但花式是我的名字

   

Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down 这是你的一个机会花式不要让我失望

Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down 这是你的一个机会花式不要让我失望

   

It wasn't long after that benevolent man 这不是后仁者人长

Took me off the street 带我离开街头

And one week later I was pourin' his tea 一个星期后我pourin “他的茶

In a five room hotel suite 在五间客房的酒店套房

   

I charmed a king, congressman í迷倒了国王，国会议员

And an occasional aristocrat 而一个偶然的贵族

Then I got me a Georgia mansion 然后，我得到了我一个格鲁吉亚的豪宅

In an elegant New York townhouse flat 在一个优雅的纽约的联排别墅平

And I ain't done bad 我不这样做不好

   

Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous 现在，在这个世界上有很多自以为是

hippocrates 希波克拉底

That would call me bad 那会叫我坏

And criticize Mama for turning me out 批评妈妈的转向我了

No matter how little we had 再好一点，我们有

   

But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' 不过，虽然我是不是有担心回合没什么

For nigh on fifteen years 对于亲近的15年

I can still hear the desperation in my poor 我仍然能听到绝望的我可怜

Mama's voice ringin' in my ear 妈妈的声音在我耳边在响

   

She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down 她说，这里是你的一个机会花式不要让我失望

Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down 这是你的一个机会花式不要让我失望

Lord, forgive me for what I do 主啊，原谅我我做什么

But if you want out well it's up to you 但如果你想搞好它给你

Now don't let me down 现在，不要让我失望

You Mama's gonna help you uptown 你妈妈的去帮助你住宅区

   

I guess she did 我猜她做了