Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: An English Teacher

An English Teacher - Chita Rivera/Dick Van Dyke

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