Little Girl Knows Entire Reba McEntire Song by Heart, Gives Flawless Performance in Backseat of Car

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Covering country legend Reba McEntire would be a tall order for any singer. But for a 4-year-old girl named Lucy Robinson, it seemed she had been ready to do that since the day she was born.

Lucy chose the family’s car as the glittering venue for her rendition, and with a supportive audience comprising her siblings and mom in the front seat, Lucy was prepped and ready to go.

As the first few bars of Reba McEntire’s “Fancy” flood the car, Lucy’s mom, Alicia, surreptitiously turns her camera toward her little girl. In the four-minute video clip that Lucy’s mom couldn’t resist sharing on YouTube, Lucy hears her cue and launches into the song with gusto.

Reba sings, “I remember it all very well lookin' back, it was the summer I turned eighteen,” and the little girl follows the lyrics in synch; she knows them all by heart. Her family stifles laughter as the young girl emulates the words of a grown woman looking back on her life as a teen; Lucy is barely 4 years old.

“We lived in a one room, rundown shack on the outskirts of New Orleans,” Reba continues, with feeling. Lucy, in the back of her family’s car, feeling every bit like the country diva, embellishes her version of the song with facial expressions and dramatic gestures.

“I taught her that!” Lucy’s sister Celeste chimes in, as Lucy mimes the word “shiver” to the line, “And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across the toe of my high heel shoe.”

“But she did it better,” Celeste laughs.

Sixty-four-year-old Reba McEntire had a hit with “Fancy” on her 1990 album “Rumor Has It,” selling a mammoth 3 million copies by 1999. The song was originally singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry’s; Gentry wrote and released the song herself in 1969.

Reba’s version became a top-10 hit in the Billboard country chart.

Despite the song’s legendary history and widespread critical acclaim, young Lucy didn’t seem the least bit nervous tackling it in the back of her family’s car. She didn’t give the Robinsons many reasons to complain, either; Lucy put on a stellar performance.

Mom Alicia’s recording has an epic 5.2 million views on YouTube, and viewers have been loving this pint-sized diva’s version of a country classic.

Lucy has come far since her four minutes of fame in her very own “carpool karaoke.” She’s entering the fifth grade at school, and her doting mom continues to document her performance antics in a series of videos named “Diva in the Making“ on her own YouTube channel.

If you enjoyed Lucy’s version of “Fancy,” then you might like to check out another fiery, pint-sized performer. An anonymous second-grader going by the name of Little John Cash took the internet by storm when he covered the late rockabilly legend Johnny Cash’s notorious “Folsom Prison Blues.”

Standing onstage during a school concert, the young boy, whose guitar is almost bigger than he is, expertly finger-picks his way through the entire song. The video was posted on YouTube and has amassed over 6.5 million views.

We can’t get enough of these talented tots!