《Why Can’t The English?》歌词

歌曲： Why Can’t The English?

所属专辑：My Fair Lady

歌手： Rex Harrison&Franz Allers

时长： 02:39

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Why Can't The English - Original Broadway Cast Recording[00:00:00]

Look at her a prisoner of the gutter [00:00:11]

Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered [00:00:14]

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

For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [00:00:19]

Heaven's What a noise [00:00:24]

This is what the British population [00:00:26]

Calls an elementary education [00:00:30]

Counsel I think you picked a poor example [00:00:32]

Did I [00:00:35]

Hear them down in Soho square [00:00:36]

Dropping his everywhere [00:00:38]

Speaking English anyway they like [00:00:40]

You sir did you go to school [00:00:43]

Wadaya like me for a fool [00:00:46]

No one taught him take instead of like [00:00:47]

Hear a Yorkshireman or worse [00:00:51]

Hear a Cornishman converse [00:00:52]

I'd rather hear a quite singing flat [00:00:54]

Chickens cackling in a barn[00:00:57]

Just like this one [00:01:00]

I ask you sir [00:01:03]

What sort of word is that [00:01:04]

It's Aoooow and Garn[00:01:06]

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

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

Why can't the English teach[00:01:15]

Their children how to speak [00:01:16]

This verbal class distinction[00:01:18]

By now should be antique [00:01:20]

If you spoke as she does [00:01:22]

Sir instead of the way you do [00:01:23]

Why you might be selling flowers too [00:01:25]

An Englishman's way of[00:01:29]

Speaking absolutely classifies him [00:01:30]

The moment he talks he makes some other[00:01:32]

Englishman despise him [00:01:34]

One common language[00:01:36]

I'm afraid we'll never get [00:01:37]

Oh why can't the English learn to set[00:01:39]

A good example to people whose[00:01:44]

English is painful to your ears [00:01:46]

The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [00:01:49]

There even are places[00:01:53]

Where English completely[00:01:55]

Disappears [00:01:56]

In America [00:01:58]

They haven't used it for years [00:01:59]

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

Their children how to speak [00:02:03]

Norwegians learn Norwegian[00:02:05]

The Greeks have taught their Greek [00:02:06]

In France every Frenchman knows[00:02:08]

His language made to Zed[00:02:10]

The French never care what they do actually [00:02:12]

As long as they pronounce in properly [00:02:14]

Arabians learn Arabian[00:02:17]

With the speed of summer lightning [00:02:18]

And Hebrews learn it backwards [00:02:20]

Which is absolutely frightening [00:02:22]

But use proper English[00:02:24]

You're regarded as a freak [00:02:26]

Why can't the English [00:02:28]

Why can't the English learn to speak[00:02:31]