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Bobbie Gentry, Sheet Music for Fancy, 1969, VG+

Bobbie Gentry, Sheet Music for Fancy, 1969, VG+

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Fancy is a song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry in 1969. The country song was a crossover pop music hit for Gentry, reaching the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 (her second and final solo single to do so) and the top 30 of the Billboard country chart. The song depicts its protagonist using prostitution to overcome childhood poverty. Gentry viewed the song as a feminist statement: The Southern Gothic style song is told from the perspective of a woman named Fancy looking back to the summer she was 18 years old. Fancy and her "plain white trash" family (a baby sibling and their mother, the father having abandoned them) lived in poverty — "a one room, rundown shack on the outskirts of New Orleans." Her mother is terminally ill and has no way to care for the baby. This is original sheet music for that song, released with a very cool picture of Dustry on the cover. It is in Very Good Plus condition. 


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