An English Teacher Lyrics - Vanessa Williams

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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 were 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. 

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