Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: An English Teacher

His going in the Army
 Is the best thing he could do
 Now you're free to start to do
 What you 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 build a 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!
 (Oh Rosie, I told you, as soon as I get a few bucks ahead)
 You said that before, Albert!
 Then along came Conrad Birdie
 And it was goodbye Geoffrey Chaucer
 Hello William Morris
 Goodbye NYU
 Hello 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!