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
Rosie
It takes time to go to business
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
Rose I told you as soon as I get a few box ahead
You said that before Albert
Then a long can come right bird it
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
