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I want to tell you all the story |
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'Bout a Harper Valley widowed wife |
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Who had a teenage daughter |
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Who attended Harper Valley Junior High |
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Well, her daughter came home one afternoon |
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And didn't even stop to play |
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And she said, "Mom, I got a note here |
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From the Harper Valley PTA" |
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Well, the note says, "Mrs. Johnson |
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You're wearing your dresses way too high |
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It's reported you've been drinkin' |
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And a runnin' 'round with men and goin' wild" |
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"And we don't believe you ought to be |
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A bringin' up your little girl this way" |
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And it was signed by the secretary |
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Harper Valley PTA |
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Well, it happened that the PTA |
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Was gonna meet that very afternoon |
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And boy were sure surprised |
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When Mrs. Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room |
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And as she walked up to the blackboard |
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I can still recall the words she had to say |
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She said, "I'd like to address this meeting |
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Of the Harper Valley PTA" |
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"Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there |
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And seven times he asked me for a date |
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And Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice |
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Whenever he's away" |
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"And Mr. Baker, can you tell us |
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Why your secretary had to leave this town? |
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And shouldn't widow Jones be told |
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To keep her window shades all pulled completely down?" |
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"Well, Mr. Harper couldn't be here |
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'Cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again |
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And if you'll smell Shirley Thompson's breath |
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You'll find she's had a little nip of gin" |
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"And then you have the nerve to tell me |
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You think that as a mother I not fit |
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Well, this is just a little Payton Place |
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And you're all Harper Valley hypocrites" |
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No, I wouldn't put you on |
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Because it really did it happened just this way |
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That day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA |
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That day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA |
