I want to tell you all the story

Bout the harper valley widow 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 mama I got a note here

From the harper valley pta

Well the note said

Mrs johnson you're a wearing

Your dresses way too high

It's reported you've been

Drinking and a running round

With men and goin wild

We don't believe you ought to be a

Bringing up your little girl this way

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 miniskirt into the room

And then 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 pta

Well there's bobby taylor sittin there

And seven times he's asked me for a date

And mr.s taylor sure seems to use

A lotta 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

Cause 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 payton 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