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! x3
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!
(It takes time to build up a business like this, Rose)
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 back to school
And become
An english teacher
And futhermore he wrote poetry
And he may not look it now operator but at one time Albert Peterson was considered
An intellectual
(I've ruined the showbusiness)
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've been Mrs. Peterson
Mrs. Albert Peterson
Mrs. College Professor Peterson
The english teacher's wife
It was goodbye Jeffery Josser
Hello William Moris
Goodbye NYU
Hello Al-Mae-Lou
Cause
When you wrote Conrad's first hit
Ahga bugha 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've been Mrs. Peterson
Mrs. Albert Peterson
Mrs. College Professor Peterson
The english teacher's wife