Harper Valley P.T.A.

Harper Valley P.T.A.-Jeannie C.Riley

I want to tell you all a story

About a Harper Valley widowed wife

Who had a teenage daughter

Who attended Harper Valley Junior high

Well her daughter came home one afternoon

And didn't even stop to play

And she said

Mom I got a note here from the Harper Valley pta

Well The note said

Mrs Johnson

You're wearing your dresses way too high

It's reported you've been drinking

And a running around with men and going wild

And we don't believe

You ought to be bringing up your little girl this way

And It was signed by the secretary

Harper Valley pta

Well it happened that the pta

Was gonna meet that very afternoon

They were sure surprised

When Mrs Johnson wore her mini skirt into the room

And as she walked up to the blackboard

I can still recall the words she had to say

She said

I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley pta

Well there's Bobby Taylor sitting there

And seven times he's asked me for a date

Mrs Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice

Whenever he's away

And Mr Baker

Can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town

And shouldn't widow Jones

Be told to keep her window shades all pulled completely down

Well Mr Harper couldn't be here

Because he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again

And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath

You'll find she's had a little nip of gin

And Then you have the nerve to tell me

You think that as a mother I'm not fit

Well this is just a little peyton place

And you're all Harper Valley hypocrites

No I wouldn't put you on

Because it really did

It happened just this way

The day my Mama socked it

To the Harper Valley pta

The day my mama socked it

To the Harper Valley pta