Harper Valley P.T.A.

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    I want to tell you all the story `bout a Harper Valley widowed wife,
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    who had a teenage daughter, who attended Harper Valley Junior High.
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    Well, her daughter came home one afternoon and didn`t even stop to play,
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    and she said, ?Mom I, got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A.

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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 been reported you`ve been drinking
    and a-running round with men and going wild.
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    Now, we don`t believe you ought to be
    a-bringin` up your little girl  this way.?
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    And it was signed by the ?Secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A.?

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    Well,  it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon,
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    and, boy, were they surprised
    when Mrs Johnson wore her mini-skirt into the room.
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    And as she walked up to the blackboard,

    I can still recall the words she had to say.
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   She said, ?I`d like to address this meetin` of the Harper Valley P.T.A."

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    ?Now there`s Bobby Taylor sittin` there,
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    and seven times he`s asked me for a date,
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   and Mrs Taylor she seems to use a lot of ice whenever he`s away.
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    And Mr. Baker, can you tell us, 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 completey down."

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    ?Now 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 smell Shirley Thompson`s breath
    you`ll find, she`s had a little nip of gin.
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    And then you have the nerve to tell me,as a mother,you think that I'm not fit.
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    Well, this is just a little Peyton Place,
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    and you`re all Harper Valley hypocrites."

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    Now I  wouldn`t put you on,
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    because it really did, it thappened just this way,
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    that day my momma socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.,
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    that day my momma socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.