《Why Can’t the English?》歌词

[00:00:00] Why Can't the English? - West End Stars

[00:00:10] Look at her a prisoner of the gutters

[00:00:14] Condemned by every syllable she utters

[00:00:17] By right she should be taken out and hung

[00:00:20] For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue

[00:00:23] Aaoooww

[00:00:24] Aaoooww

[00:00:25] Heavens What a noise

[00:00:27] This is what the British population

[00:00:31] Calls an elementary education

[00:00:34] Oh Counsel I think you picked a poor example

[00:00:36] Did I

[00:00:38] Hear them down in Soho square

[00:00:40] Dropping "h's" everywhere

[00:00:42] Speaking English anyway they like

[00:00:45] You sir did you go to school

[00:00:47] Wadaya tike me for a fool

[00:00:49] No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike

[00:00:52] Hear a Yorkshire man or worse

[00:00:54] Hear a Cornishman converse

[00:00:56] I'd rather hear a choir singing flat

[00:00:59] Chickens cackling in a barn

[00:01:01] Just like this one

[00:01:02] Gaaarn

[00:01:03] Gaaarn

[00:01:03] I ask you Sir what sort of word is that

[00:01:06] It's "aoow" and "gaarn"

[00:01:08] That keep her in her place

[00:01:10] Not her wretched clothes and dirty face

[00:01:13] Why can't the English teach their children

[00:01:16] How to speak

[00:01:17] This verbal class distinction by now

[00:01:19] Should be antique

[00:01:20] If you spoke as she does sir

[00:01:22] Instead of the way you do

[00:01:24] Why you might be selling flowers too

[00:01:26] I beg your pardon

[00:01:27] An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him

[00:01:31] The moment he talks he makes some other

[00:01:33] Englishman despise him

[00:01:34] One common language I'm afraid we'll never get

[00:01:38] Oh why can't the English learn to

[00:01:42] Set a good example to people whose

[00:01:44] English is painful to your ears

[00:01:48] The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears

[00:01:51] There even are places

[00:01:53] Where English completely disappears

[00:01:56] In America they haven't used it for years

[00:02:00] Why can't the English teach their children how to speak

[00:02:03] Norwegians learn Norwegian;

[00:02:05] The Greeks have taught their Greek

[00:02:07] In France every Frenchman knows

[00:02:09] His language fro "A" to "Zed"

[00:02:10] The French never care what they do actually

[00:02:13] As long as they pronounce it properly

[00:02:16] Arabians learn Arabian

[00:02:17] With the speed of summer lightning

[00:02:19] And Hebrews learn it backwards

[00:02:21] Which is absolutely frightening

[00:02:23] But use proper English you're regarded as a freak

[00:02:26] Why can't the English

[00:02:30] Why can't the English learn to speak