The singer and songwriter Tom T. Hall accepting an award in 2012. “When I got to the end of the story,” he once said of his songs, “if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.”Credit...Wade Payne/Invision, Associated Press

Mr. Hall, who wrote hits like “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” helped to imbue country lyrics with newfound depth and insight in the 1960s and ’70s.
Tom T. Hall, a country singer and songwriter known for wry, socially conscious hit songs like “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” died on Friday at his home in Franklin, Tenn. He was 85.
His death was confirmed by a director at the Williamson Memorial Funeral Home in Franklin
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