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Harper Valley Pta Tab

by Jeannie C Riley


You'll need a capo on the second to play along w/h the song or play it in A but 
remeber it goes a a step throughout. 

               
I want to tell you all a story 'bout 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
                                                      
She said Mom I got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A.
     
The note said Misses Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high
       
It's reported you've been drinking and a runnin' round with men and going wild
        
And we don't believe you ought to be a bringing up your little girl this way
                                              
It was signed by the secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A. 
 
          
Well, it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon
           
They were sure surprised when Misses Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room
                                 
And as she walked up to the blackboard I still recall the words she had to say
                                                                
She said, I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley P.T.A.
                           
Well there's Bobby Taylor, sitting there and seven times he's asked me for a
date
         
Misses Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he's away
           
And Mister 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 Mister Harper couldn't be here 'cause he stayed to long at Kelly's Bar
again
            
And if you smell Shirley Tompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip
of gin
         
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 happend just this way
                                             
The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley P.t.A.  
                                             
The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.