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Artist: Bye Bye Birdie
Canonical path: /bye-bye-birdie/an-english-teacher
Related lyric paths: 6
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An English Teacher
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An English Teacher
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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!
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