《Why Can’t The English?》歌词

[00:00:00] Look at her a prisoner of the gutter

[00:00:03] Condemned by every syllable she utters

[00:00:07] By right she should be taken out and hung

[00:00:10] For the cold blooded murder of the English tongue

[00:00:13] Aaoooww

[00:00:14] Aaoooww

[00:00:15] Heavens What a sound

[00:00:17] This is what the British population

[00:00:20] Calls an elementary education

[00:00:23] Oh sir I think you picked a poor example

[00:00:25] Did I

[00:00:27] Hear them down in chelesy square

[00:00:29] Dropping he's everywhere

[00:00:31] Speaking English anyway they like

[00:00:34] You sir did you go to school

[00:00:37] Wadaya tike me for a fool

[00:00:38] No one taught him take instead of tike

[00:00:42] Hear a yorkshire man or worse

[00:00:44] Hear a cornishman converse

[00:00:46] I'd rather hear a choir singing flat

[00:00:49] Chickens cackling in a barn

[00:00:52] Just like this one

[00:00:53] Gaaarn

[00:00:54] Gaaarn

[00:00:56] I ask you Sir

[00:00:57] What sort of word is that

[00:00:59] It's aoow and gaarn that keep her in her place

[00:01:03] Not her wretched clothes and dirty face

[00:01:07] Why can't the English teach their children how to speak

[00:01:10] This verbal class distinction by now

[00:01:13] Should be antique If you spoke as she does sir

[00:01:16] Instead of the way you do

[00:01:18] Why you might be selling flowers too

[00:01:20] I beg your pardon

[00:01:22] An Englishman's way of speaking

[00:01:23] Absolutely classifies him

[00:01:25] The moment he talks he makes some other

[00:01:27] Englishman despise him

[00:01:29] One common language I'm afraid we'll never get

[00:01:32] Oh why can't the English learn to

[00:01:37] Set a good example to people whose

[00:01:39] English is painful to your ears

[00:01:42] The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears

[00:01:46] There even are places where English completely

[00:01:49] Disappears

[00:01:51] In America they haven't used it for years

[00:01:55] Why can't the English teach their children how to speak

[00:01:58] Norwegians learn norwegian

[00:02:00] The Greeks have taught their greek

[00:02:01] In France every frenchman knows

[00:02:03] His language made to zed

[00:02:06] The French never care what they do actually

[00:02:07] As long as they pronounce it properly

[00:02:10] Arabians learn arabian

[00:02:12] With the speed of summer lightning

[00:02:14] And Hebrews learn it backwards

[00:02:16] Which is absolutely frightening

[00:02:18] Use proper English you're regarded as a freak

[00:02:21] Why can't the English

[00:02:25] Why can't the English learn to speak

[00:02:29] Why Can't The English - Marni Nixon