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《Medley:Overture / Why Can’t the English?》歌词


歌曲: Medley:Overture / Why Can’t the English?

所属专辑:Just You Wait

歌手: Julie Andrews

时长: 05:37

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Medley:Overture / Why Can’t the English?

Medley:Overture / Why Can't the English? - Julie Andrews (茱莉·安德鲁斯)[00:00:00]

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

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

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

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

Aaoooww [00:03:11]

Aaoooww [00:03:12]

Heavens what a noise [00:03:14]

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

Calls an elementary education [00:03:19]

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

Did I [00:03:24]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hear a Cornishman converse [00:03:43]

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

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

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

Garn [00:03:53]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Should be antique [00:04:13]

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

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

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

I beg your pardon [00:04:20]

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

Speaking absolutely classifies him [00:04:23]

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

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

One common language[00:04:29]

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

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

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

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

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

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

English completely disappears [00:04:48]

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

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

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

Norwegians learn Norwegian [00:04:58]

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

In France every Frenchman[00:05:02]

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

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

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

Arabians learn Arabian with[00:05:11]

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

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

Which is absolutely frightening [00:05:16]

But use proper English[00:05:18]

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

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

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

To Speak[00:05:29]