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.