English Teacher Original Broadway Cast of Bye Bye Birdie (Ft. Chita Rivera & Dick Van Dyke)

[Rosie]
His going in the Army
It's 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!

[Albert]
Rosie, it takes time to build a business

[Rosie]
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!