C C7 I want to tell you all the story `bout a Harper Valley widowed wife, F who had a teenage daughter, who attended Harper Valley Junior High. C Well, her daughter came home one afternoon and didn`t even stop to play, F G C and she said, ?Mom I, got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A. C Well, the note says, ?Mrs. Johnson, C7 you`re wearing your dresses way too high. F It`s been reported you`ve been drinking and a-running round with men and going wild. C Now, we don`t believe you ought to be a-bringin` up your little girl this way.? F G C And it was signed by the ?Secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A.? C C7 Well, it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon, F and, boy, were they surprised when Mrs Johnson wore her mini-skirt into the room. C And as she walked up to the blackboard, I can still recall the words she had to say. F G C She said, ?I`d like to address this meetin` of the Harper Valley P.T.A.? C ?Now there`s Bobby Taylor sittin` there, C7 and seven times he`s asked me for a date, F and Mrs Taylor she seems to use a lot of ice whenever he`s away. C And Mr. Baker, can you tell us, why your secretary had to leave this town? F And shouldn`t widow Jones be told G C to keep her window shades all pulled completey down.? C ?Now Mr. Harper couldn`t be here, C7 cause he stayed too long at Kelly`s Bar again, F and if you smell Shirley Thompson`s breath you`ll find, she`s had a little nip of gin. C And then you have the nerve to tell me,as a mother,you think that I'm not fit. F Well, this is just a little Peyton Place, G C and you`re all Harper Valley hypocrites.? C Now I wouldn`t put you on, C7 because it really did, it thappened just this way, F G C that day my momma socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A., F G C that day my momma socked it to the Harper Valley P.T.A.