Key: Eb major
Verse 1
is the best thing he could do
Now you're free to start to do
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what you wanted to
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Albert, Albert, Albert
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I remember how you told me
I should trust him for a year
It was just for a year
Eight long years, Albert
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Takes time to build up a business like this,
Rose
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It was only a sideline,
that's what you said
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You just needed some money,
that's what you said
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You were going to col
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Instead of being a music
And become...
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An English teacher! Rose!
And furthermore, he wrote poetry!
And you may not look it now, operator
But at one time Albert
Peterson was considered
An intellectual!
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an English teacher.
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If only you'd
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We'd have a little
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You'd get a summer vacation.
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And we would know what life means.
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A man who's got his masters
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is really someone.
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How proud I'd be if
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It could have been
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such a wonderful life.
I could have been
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Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Albert Peterson,
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Mrs. College
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Professor Peterson.
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from the Eng lish teach
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er's line.
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hello William Morris,
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hello Alleluia.
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When you wrote Conrad's first hit,
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then I knew, that was it,
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you were through with English,
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forever.
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How proud I'd be
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It could have been
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such a wonder ful life
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Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Albert Peterson, Mrs. Colin,
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Rebecca Peterson, the English teacher boy!
Outro 1
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