《Overture - Why Can’t the English?》歌词

[00:00:00] Overture - Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison

[00:02:59] Look at her a prisoner of the gutter

[00:03:02] Condemned by every syllable she utters

[00:03:05] By right she should be taken out and hung

[00:03:08] For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue

[00:03:11] Aaoooww

[00:03:12] Aaoooww

[00:03:14] Heavens what a noise

[00:03:16] This is what the British population

[00:03:19] Calls an elementary education

[00:03:22] Come sir I think you picked a poor example

[00:03:24] Did I

[00:03:26] Hear them down in Soho square

[00:03:29] Dropping "h's" everywhere

[00:03:30] Speaking English anyway they like

[00:03:34] You sir did you go to school

[00:03:36] Wadaya tike me for a fool

[00:03:38] No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'

[00:03:41] Hear a Yorkshireman or worse

[00:03:43] Hear a Cornishman converse

[00:03:45] I'd rather hear a choir singing flat

[00:03:48] Chickens cackling in a barn

[00:03:51] Just like this one here

[00:03:53] Garn

[00:03:55] I ask you sir what sort of word is that

[00:03:58] It's "Aaoooww" and

[00:04:00] "Garn" that keep her in her place

[00:04:02] Not her wretched clothes and dirty face

[00:04:06] Why can't the English teach

[00:04:08] Their children how to speak

[00:04:10] This verbal class distinction by now

[00:04:13] Should be antique

[00:04:14] If you spoke as she does sir

[00:04:16] Instead of the way you do

[00:04:18] Why you might be selling flowers too

[00:04:20] I beg your pardon

[00:04:21] An Englishman's way of

[00:04:23] Speaking absolutely classifies him

[00:04:25] The moment he talks he

[00:04:27] Makes some other Englishman despise him

[00:04:29] One common language

[00:04:30] I'm afraid we'll never get

[00:04:32] Oh why can't the English learn to

[00:04:36] Set a good example to people whose

[00:04:39] English is painful to your ears

[00:04:43] The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears

[00:04:46] There even are places where

[00:04:48] English completely disappears

[00:04:51] In America they haven't used it for years

[00:04:55] Why can't the English teach

[00:04:56] Their children how to speak

[00:04:58] Norwegians learn Norwegian

[00:05:00] The Greeks are taught their Greek

[00:05:02] In France every Frenchman

[00:05:03] Knows his language from "A" to "Zed"

[00:05:06] The French never care what they do

[00:05:07] Actually as long as they pronounce it properly

[00:05:11] Arabians learn Arabian with

[00:05:13] The speed of summer lightning

[00:05:15] The Hebrews learn it backwards

[00:05:16] Which is absolutely frightening

[00:05:18] But use proper English

[00:05:20] And you're regarded as a freak

[00:05:22] Why can't the English

[00:05:26] Why can't the English learn

[00:05:29] To Speak