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Latter Day Harper Valley PTA
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A modern day follow up on the old Tom T. Hall song, sung by Jeannie C. Riley.
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Cosmic American music See latest songs here: www.reverbnation.com/vicfitzsimmons
February 25, 1973 as a college senior an 18-year-old kid came left of center and hit me head-on in a car crash. Hospitalized it kept me from graduating with my classmates. I had to attend summer school to complete my degree. I took with me to summer school an old guitar along with the album and songbook "The Silver Tongued Devil And I" by Kris Kristofferson. As I tried to learn my first song I realized the practice time had been the longest I had gone without thinking about the wreck and all the problems it had caused. It had killed the kid who had crashed into me and he was an only child. Since learning "The Silver Tongued Devil And I," I have turned to the songs of Kris Kristofferson during times of trouble in my life. In 1999 I lost my older son, Tad, in a car wreck during his junior year at Fairmont State College and in 2003 my wife decided to divorce me. When I got into an apartment of my own I turned to the songs of Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffet and others. After a few months I began writing my own songs and "Uranus" is the result. www.reverbnation.com/vicfitzsimmons Other sites: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=101838296 http://cdbaby.com/cd/vicfitzsimmons Contact Info: fitzuranus@yahoo.com Phone: (304) 758-2305
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Charts
Peak #515
Peak in subgenre #154
Author
Vic Fitzsimmons
Rights
Fitzsimmons 2005
Uploaded
January 02, 2007
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 3:20
Story behind the song
When my ex became 'assistant superintendent' of the local school system she promptly made her plans to divorce me. I could not resitst writing this song. My CD cover for "Uranus" states: There is no reference to anyone on earth, in Heaven or Uranus in any of these songs, especially "Latter Day Harper Valley PTA."
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Latter Day Harper Valley PTA by the Defendant aka Vic Fitzsimmons © 1/19/2004 The Assistant Superintendent Has been brilliant in everything she’s said But it really got to me She said her secretary Had once got caught in a local lawyer’s bed Chorus School employees should beware of the Assistant Of the Harper Valley School System If they all ever knew Everything she’d say and do It’s something that really would have pissed ‘em. She said the secretary took that piece of paper From the trash can of her supervisor Now she can’t steal another letter Cause they bought that paper shredder And Mrs. Johnson has never been the wiser Chorus She said the school clerk was fooling with Her husband’s first cousin, the coach She set up a stake out for ’em Cause she never did adore ’em She’d have fired them but she missed in her approach Chorus Just a few things the Assistant has told me Hard to recall where it all begins What really made me flinch Is what she said about Ms. Bench And the neighbor boy who fathered her twins Chorus:
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