An English Teacher-Dick Van Dyke/Chita Rivera

[ti:An English Teacher] [ar:Chita Rivera/Dick Van Dyke] [al:Bye Bye Birdie! - Original Broadway Cast] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]An English Teacher - Dick Van Dyke/Chita Rivera [00:02.77]He's going in the Army [00:04.02]It's the best thing he could do [00:05.43]Now we're free to start to do [00:07.04]What we wanted to [00:08.38]Albert Albert A-A-A-Albert [00:13.83]I remember how you told me [00:15.14]I should trust you for a year [00:16.69]It would just be for a year [00:17.98]But it's eight years Albert [00:20.56] [00:21.38]Eight long years Albert [00:22.79] [00:23.36]Rosie [00:23.68]It takes time to go to business [00:25.08] [00:25.59]It was only a sideline [00:27.32]That's what you said [00:28.51]You just needed some money [00:30.09]That's what you said [00:31.23]You were going to college and get ahead [00:33.82] [00:34.77]Instead of being a music business bum [00:36.80] [00:37.51]You were going to NYU [00:38.95] [00:39.58]And become an English teacher [00:43.21] [00:44.45]An English teacher an English teacher [00:50.54]If only you'd been an English teacher [00:56.45] [00:56.97]We'd have a little apartment in Queens [01:00.85]You'd get a summer vacation [01:03.72]And we would know what life means [01:06.30] [01:06.86]A man who's got his masters [01:10.60]Is really someone [01:12.96] [01:13.52]How proud I'd be if you had become one [01:19.25] [01:19.96]It could have been such a wonderful life [01:23.28] [01:23.86]I could have been Mrs Peterson [01:26.31] [01:26.94]Mrs Albert Peterson [01:29.06]Mrs Phi Beta Kappa Peterson [01:32.22]The English teacher's wife [01:37.23]Rose I told you as soon as I get a few box ahead [01:40.20]You said that before Albert [01:41.51] [01:42.02]Then a long can come right bird it [01:43.65] [01:44.69]And It was goodbye Jeffery Josser [01:49.10] [01:49.81]Hello William Morris [01:52.61]Goodbye NYU [01:55.48]Hello all ALMAELOU [01:58.21]'Cause when you wrote Canard's first hit [02:02.18] [02:02.80]Agha-bagha-boo [02:03.77] [02:04.36]Then I knew that was it [02:07.09]You were through with English [02:10.24] [02:10.79]Forever [02:14.05] [02:15.34]An English teacher is really someone [02:21.86]How proud I'd be if you had become one [02:27.78] [02:28.39]It could have been such a wonderful life [02:32.25]I could have been Mrs Peterson [02:34.80] [02:35.40]Mrs Albert Peterson [02:37.52]Mrs Phi Beta Kappa Peterson [02:40.68]The English teacher's wife