Part Of Honey Lyrics - Harper Valley P.t.a. (the Plantation Recordings 1968-70) - Jeannie C. Riley

The teacher said it's time to think about the annual play 

To be put on next month and sponsored by the PTA 

Most of you have seen the script and now the question is 

Who would like to play the part of honey 

The part calls for a lady who was beauty wit and charm 

Who falls in love with Jerry Walsh of Merry Meadow Farm 

In the end they marry and go off to see the world 

Now who would like to play the part of honey 

[ harmonica ] 

The hand of Sally Jordon slowly raised into the air 

Other members of the class all turned around to stare 

For Sally Jordon was a poor girl it was plain to see 

She could never play the part of honey 

The teacher just pretended that she didn't see a hand 

Instead she picked the daughter of a very wealthy man 

Poor and pretty Sally sat there holdin' back her tears 

She wanted so to play the part of honey 

[ harmonica ] 

The play went off without her and as graduation came 

Sally Jordon went away and they forgot her name 

But Sally Jordon never did forget the high school play 

She didn't get to play the part of honey 

One day there was news about a movie in the town 

People came to see it for a hundred miles around 

For there was someone in it that the population knew 

Sally Jordon played the part of honey 

Perhaps the moral of the story's neighter here nor there 

For beauty is as beauty does and wit and charm are airs 

When all has been considered it's difficult to tell 

Just who it is that fits the part of honey