An English Teacher Lyrics

(Rosie)
His going in the army is the best thing he can do
Now you're free to start to do
what you wanted to

Albert!
Albert!
Aaa-Albert!

I remember how you told me I should trust you for a year
It would just be for a year
But its Eight years Aallbert!
Eight long years(spoken)Albert!!

(Albert)
Rosie it takes time to build a business!

(Rosie)
It was only a sideline, thats what you said
You just needed some money, thats what you said
You were going to college, and get ahead..
Instead of being a music business bum,
You were going to NYU, and becoooome...

(Albert)
Don't say it Rose!
(Spoken) 
AN ENGLISH TEACHER!!!
(Albert)
Rosie!
(Rosie)
An furthermore, he wrote poetry...
(Albert)
Rose, Please!
(Rosie)
In in the NYU yearbook for 1952, under Albert Peterson's favorite piece of literature... you know what it says....

LITTLE WOMEN!

(Albert)
I'm ruined in show business!

(Rosie, sung)
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 coulda been Mrs. Peterson,
Mrs. Albert Peterson,
Mrs. Phi Betta Kappa Peterson,
The English Teachers Wife! 

(Albert)
Oh, Rosie, I told you as soon as I get a few bucks ahead..
(Rosie, spoken)
You said that before Albert, and along came Conrad Birdie!

(sung)
And it was goodbye, Geoffery Chaucer,
Hello, William Morris,
Goodbye NYU,
Hello Almaelou, cuz
When you wrote Conrad's last hit, Ugga Bugga 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 coulda been Mrs. Peterson
Mrs. Albert Peterson
Mrs. Phi Betta Kappa Peterson
The English Teachers Wife! 


English Teacher(Reprise)
(Rosie)
An English Teacher
An English Teacher
Someday he may be an English Teacher!

(Phone Rings, Rosie answers)
Yes? Well, every phone in Sweet Apple can't be busy. What's going on there? Kim MacAffe just got pinned to who? Oh... Never mind Mary, just keep trying and call me right back.

(She hangs up, and sings...)
Its gonna be such a wonderful life
I'm gonna be Mrs. Peterson,
Mrs. Albert Peterson,
Mrs. Phi Betta Kappa Peterson,
The English Teacher's Wife!!