From Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack

His going in the army is the best thing he could
do. Now you're free to start to do, what you want
to do. Albert, Albert, Albert! I remember how you
told me I should trust you for a year. It would
just be for a year. But it's 8 years, Albert. 8
long years Albert. 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
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/SVhjwere going to NYU and become....An English
teacher! (spoken lines - not part of the song) 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-Cappa
Peterson, the English teacher's wife.