Bye Bye Birdie An English Teacher Lyrics

An English Teacher Lyrics

Rosie: 

  

 He's going in the Army 

 It's the best thing he could do 

 Now we're free to start to do 

 What we wanted to 

 Albert, Albert, A-A-A-Albert! 

 I remember how you told me 

 I should trust you for a year 

 It would just be for a year 

 But it's eight years, Albert! 

 Eight long years, Albert! 

 Albert: 

 Rosie, it takes time to go to business. 

 Rosie: 

 It was only a sideline 

 That's what you said 

 You just needed some money 

 That's what you said 

 You were going to college and get ahead 

 Instead of being a music business bum 

 You were going to NYU 

 And become an English teacher 

 An English teacher, an English teacher. 

 If only you'd been an English teacher 

 We'd have a little apartment in Queens 

 You'd get a summer vacation 

 And we would know what life means 

 A man who's got his masters 

 Is really someone 

 How proud I'd be if you had become one 

 It could have been such a wonderful life 

 I could have been Mrs. Peterson 

 Mrs. Albert Peterson, 

 Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson, 

 The English teacher's wife! 

 Albert: 

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

 Rosie: 

 You said it before, Albert! 

 And along came Conrad Birdie... 

 And it was goodbye Jeffery Josser 

 Hello William Morris 

 Goodbye NYU, 

 Hello all ALMAELOU 

 'Cause when you wrote Canard's first hit 

 Agha-bagha-boo 

 Then I knew that was it 

 You were through with English 

 Forever... 

 An English teacher is really someone 

 How proud I'd be if you had become one 

 It could have been such a wonderful life 

 I could have been Mrs. Peterson 

 Mrs. Albert Peterson, 

 Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson, 

 The English teacher's wife