Bye Bye Birdie movie - An English Teacher lyrics

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Rosie:<br>

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He's going in the Army<br>

It's the best thing he could do<br>

Now we're free to start to do<br>

What we wanted to<br>

Albert, Albert, A-A-A-Albert!<br>

I remember how you told me<br>

I should trust you for a year<br>

It would just be for a year<br>

But it's eight years, Albert!<br>

Eight long years, Albert!<br>

Albert:<br>

Rosie, it takes time to go to business.<br>

Rosie:<br>

It was only a sideline<br>

That's what you said<br>

You just needed some money<br>

That's what you said<br>

You were going to college and get ahead<br>

Instead of being a music business bum<br>

You were going to NYU<br>

And become an English teacher<br>

An English teacher, an English teacher.<br>

If only you'd been an English teacher<br>

We'd have a little apartment in Queens<br>

You'd get a summer vacation<br>

And we would know what life means<br>

A man who's got his masters<br>

Is really someone<br>

How proud I'd be if you had become one<br>

It could have been such a wonderful life<br>

I could have been Mrs. Peterson<br>

Mrs. Albert Peterson,<br>

Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson,<br>

The English teacher's wife!<br>

Albert:<br>

Oh Rosie, I told you as soon as I get a few bucks ahead...<br>

Rosie:<br>

You said it before, Albert!<br>

And along came Conrad Birdie...<br>

And it was goodbye Jeffery Josser<br>

Hello William Morris<br>

Goodbye NYU,<br>

Hello all ALMAELOU<br>

'Cause when you wrote Canard's first hit<br>

Agha-bagha-boo<br>

Then I knew that was it<br>

You were through with English<br>

Forever...<br>

An English teacher is really someone<br>

How proud I'd be if you had become one<br>

It could have been such a wonderful life<br>

I could have been Mrs. Peterson<br>

Mrs. Albert Peterson,<br>

Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson,<br>

The English teacher's wife!<br>

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