13. Harper Valley PTA, Jeanne C. Riley
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In this very on-trend song (for 1968, of course) Jeanne C. Riley sings the mother bear’s theme song. When the uptight pearl clutchers on the PTA get on a mom for setting a bad example for her daughter, she tells them what’s what by pointing out their hypocrisies.
Most mom-tastic lyric:
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 happened just this way/ The day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA.
12. Treat Your Mother Right, Mr. T
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Rounding out the kitsch category is good ol’ Mr. T., who reminds some sparring kids that to make fun of even one mother — no matter the dankness of your yo mama joke — is to mock them all, something any mom would be proud to have their child say.
Most mom-tastic lyric:
All of it, honestly, but if we had to pick one it would be: M is for the moan, and the miserable groan/ From the pain that she felt when I was born
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