Biography:
Reba Nell McEntire (born on March 28, 1955 - Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA) is a Grammy Award-winning singer and one of the best-selling country music performers of all time, known for her pop-tinged ballads that include 24 #1 hits. She has issued 28 studio albums and 13 compilations, with more than 50 million records sold as of 2007.
With a contract to Mercury Records (1975), McEntire began her professional career singing heavily pop-influenced ballads, a far cry from the neotraditionalist movement she would help lead a few years later.
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Other songs:
- How Blue
- All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go
- All This Time
- Am I The Only One Who Cares
- And Still
- Angels Lullabye
- Back To God
- Because Of You
- Big Blue Sky
- Bobby
- Break Each Others Hearts Again
- But Why
- Cane Even Get The Blues No More
- Cant Even Get The Blues
- Cathys Clown
- Climb That Mountain High
- Close To Crazy
- Consider Me Gone
- Cry
- Does He Love You
- Does The Wind Still Blow In Oklahoma
- Dont Touch Me There
- Ease The Fever
- Enough
- Every Other Weekend
- Every Second Someone Breaks A Heart
- Everyday People
- Everything But My Heart
- Everything Ill Ever Own
- Everything That You Want
- Face To Face
- Fallin Out Of Love
- Fancy
- Fear Of Being Alone
- For Herself
- For My Broken Heart
- Forever Love
- Going Out Like That
- Gonna Love Ya Till The Cows Come Home
- Happy Birthday Jesus Ill Open This One For You
- He Gets That From Me
- Heart Hush
- Hes In Dallas
- How Was I To Know
- I Can See Forever In Your Eyes
- I Dont Think Love Ought To Be That Way
- I Heard Her Cryin
- I Keep On Lovin You
- I Keep On Loving You
- I Know How He Feels
- I Still Long To Hold You Now And Then
- I Was Glad To Give My Everything To You
- I Wish That I Could Tell You
- I Wouldnt Go That Far
- I Wouldnt Wanna Be You
- Id Rather Ride Around With You
- If I Had It My Way
- If I Had Only Known
- If I Were A Boy
- If You Only Knew
- If You See Him
- If You See Him If You See Her
- Ill Be
- Ill Be Home For Christmas
- Ill Believe It When I Feel It
- Ill Give You Something To Miss
- Ill Go On
- Ill Keep On Loving You
- Im A Survivor
- Im Gonna Take That Mountain
- Im Not Your Girl
- Indelibly Blue
- Invisible
- Is It Really Love
- Is There Life Out There
- It Dont Matter
- It Just Has To Be This Way
- Its Your Call
- Ive Seen Better Days
- Ive Still Got The Love We Made
- Just A Little Love
- Just Across The Rio Grande
- Just Like Them Horses
- Just Looking For Him
- Just When I Thought Id Stopped Loving You
- Last Night Evry Night
- Lighter Shade Of Blue
- Little Rock
- Lonely Alone
- Long Distance Lover
- Look At The One Whos Been Looking At You
- Lookin For A New Love Story
- Love By Love
- Love Isnt Love Til You Give It Away
- Maggie Creek Road
- More Than Just Her Last Name
- Moving Oleta
- My Mind Is On You
- My Sister
- New Fool At An Old Game
- Night Life
- Old Man River Ive Come To Talk Again
- Once Youve Learned To Be Lonely
- One Last Good Hand
- One Promise Too Late
- Only In My Mind
- Over Under And Around
- Pink Guitar
- Please Come To Boston
- Promise Me Love
- Read My Mind
- Red Roses
- Red Roses Wont Work Now
- Room To Breathe
- Roses
- Rumor Has It
- Secret
- She Cant Save Him
- She Got Drunk Last Night
- She Wasnt Good Enough For Him
- Shes Callin It Love
- Shes The One Loving You Now
- Shes Tuning 50 Today
- Shes Turning 50 Today
- Sing It Now
- Sky Full Of Angels
- Sleeping With The Telephone
- Small Two
- Somebody
- Somebody Should Leave
- Somebodys Chelsea
- State Of Grace
- Straight From You
- Strange
- Sunday Kind Of Love
- Sweet Music Man
- Take It Back
- Take Your Love Away
- Tell Me Whats So Good About Goodbye
- Thats When I Knew
- The Bridge You Burn
- The Family
- The Fear Of Being Alone
- The Girl Who Has Everything
- The Great Divide
- The Greatest Man I Never Knew
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
- The Heart Wont Lie
- The Last One To Know
- The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
- The Only Promise That Remains
- The Stairs
- These Broken Hearts
- This Picture
- Til You Love Me
- Till It Snows In Mexico
- Till You Love Me
- Turn On The Radio
- Up And Flying
- Waiting For The Deal To Go Down
- What Am I Gonna Do About You
- What Do You Know About Heartache
- What Do You Say
- What If Its You
- What You Gonna Do About Me
- Whatever Way It Hurts The Least
- When Love Gets A Hold Of You
- When You Have A Child
- When You Love Someone Like That
- When Youre Not Trying To
- Whoevers In New England
- Whoevers Watchin
- Whos Ever In New England
- Why Havent I Heard From You
- Will He Ever Go Away
- Wrong Night
- You Are Always There For Me
- You Lie
- You Lift Me Up To Heaven
- Youre Gonna Be
- Youre The First Time Ive Thought About Leaving
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CAPO at II
[Intro]
E G A E
/ ///// / ///// / ///// / //// /
[Verse 1]
E
I remember it all very well lookin' back
A
It was the summer I turned eighteen
A
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
C E
On the outskirts of New Orleans
E
We didn't have money for food or rent
A
To say the least we were hard pressed
A
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
C E
To buy me a dancin' dress
E
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
A D
and she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
A E
dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
E A
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
D
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
A E
There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2 E
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Verse 2]
E
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
A
And she kissed my cheek
A C
Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
E
When she started to speak
E
She looked at a pitiful shack
A
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
A
She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick
C E
And the baby's gonna starve to death
E
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
A
"To thine own self be true"
D
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
A E
the toe of my high heeled shoe
E
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
G# C#
Askin' Mama what do I do
A
She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
B E
And they'll be nice to you
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Chorus 2]
G A C
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
D
Well it's up to you
C B E
Now don't let me down you better start movin' uptown
[Verse 3]
E
Well that was the last time I saw my Ma
A
The night I left that rickety shack
A
The welfare people came and took the baby
C E
Mama died and I ain't been back
E
But the wheel of fate had started to turn
A
And for me there was no way out
A
And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
C E
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
E A
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
D
That I's gonna be a lady someday
A E
Though I didn't know when or how
E
I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
G# C#
With my head hung down in shame you know
A
I might have been born just plain white trash
B E
But Fancy was my name
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2 E
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Verse 4]
* Guitar in next verse is played almost as percussion
* Fret-hand dampens strings, pick-hand keeps tempo
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took me off the street
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite
I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
* Guitar comes back in...
E repeat intro E G A E
And I ain't done bad
E A
Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
That would call me bad
D
And criticize Mama for turning me out
A E
No matter how little we had
E
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
G# C#
For nigh on fifteen years
A
I can still hear the desparation in my poor
B E
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Chorus 2]
G A
Lord forgive me for what I do
C D
But if you want out well it's up to you
C
Now don't let me down
B E
Your Mama's goina help you uptown
E (repeat intro/outro to end)
I guess she did
--------------------------------------------------------------
Comments:
Play the following sequence of notes (open strings correspond
to CAPO at II).
Run#1 -f#-||---------- Run#2 -f#-||----------|
-c#-||---------- -c#-||-0--------|
-a -||-----0---- -a -||---2-0----|
-e -||-0-2---0-2 -e -||-------0-2|
-b -||---------- -b -||----------|
-F#-||---------- -F#-||----------|
Similar note runs occur throughout the song, so listen for them.
Or make up your own, like me (i.e., whenever I hit a wrong note --
which is pretty often).
What else... the song is performed with a lot of attitude, so the
strumming/pickin' tempo is reflective of that.
[Intro]
E G A E
/ ///// / ///// / ///// / //// /
[Verse 1]
E
I remember it all very well lookin' back
A
It was the summer I turned eighteen
A
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
C E
On the outskirts of New Orleans
E
We didn't have money for food or rent
A
To say the least we were hard pressed
A
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
C E
To buy me a dancin' dress
E
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
A D
and she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
A E
dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
E A
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
D
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
A E
There stood a woman where a half grown kid had stood
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2 E
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Verse 2]
E
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
A
And she kissed my cheek
A C
Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
E
When she started to speak
E
She looked at a pitiful shack
A
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
A
She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick
C E
And the baby's gonna starve to death
E
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
A
"To thine own self be true"
D
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
A E
the toe of my high heeled shoe
E
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
G# C#
Askin' Mama what do I do
A
She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy
B E
And they'll be nice to you
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Chorus 2]
G A C
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
D
Well it's up to you
C B E
Now don't let me down you better start movin' uptown
[Verse 3]
E
Well that was the last time I saw my Ma
A
The night I left that rickety shack
A
The welfare people came and took the baby
C E
Mama died and I ain't been back
E
But the wheel of fate had started to turn
A
And for me there was no way out
A
And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly
C E
What my Mama'd been talkin' about
E A
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
D
That I's gonna be a lady someday
A E
Though I didn't know when or how
E
I couldn't see spending the rest of my life
G# C#
With my head hung down in shame you know
A
I might have been born just plain white trash
B E
But Fancy was my name
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2 E
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Verse 4]
* Guitar in next verse is played almost as percussion
* Fret-hand dampens strings, pick-hand keeps tempo
It wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took me off the street
And one week later I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite
I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion
In an elegant New York townhouse flat
* Guitar comes back in...
E repeat intro E G A E
And I ain't done bad
E A
Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
That would call me bad
D
And criticize Mama for turning me out
A E
No matter how little we had
E
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'
G# C#
For nigh on fifteen years
A
I can still hear the desparation in my poor
B E
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear
[Chorus 1]
C A E run#1
She said, here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
G A E run#2
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
[Chorus 2]
G A
Lord forgive me for what I do
C D
But if you want out well it's up to you
C
Now don't let me down
B E
Your Mama's goina help you uptown
E (repeat intro/outro to end)
I guess she did
--------------------------------------------------------------
Comments:
Play the following sequence of notes (open strings correspond
to CAPO at II).
Run#1 -f#-||---------- Run#2 -f#-||----------|
-c#-||---------- -c#-||-0--------|
-a -||-----0---- -a -||---2-0----|
-e -||-0-2---0-2 -e -||-------0-2|
-b -||---------- -b -||----------|
-F#-||---------- -F#-||----------|
Similar note runs occur throughout the song, so listen for them.
Or make up your own, like me (i.e., whenever I hit a wrong note --
which is pretty often).
What else... the song is performed with a lot of attitude, so the
strumming/pickin' tempo is reflective of that.
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