所属专辑:Just You Wait
歌手: Julie Andrews
时长: 05:37
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]