《Why Can’t the English?》歌词

歌曲： Why Can’t the English?

所属专辑：My Fair Lady - The Legendary Musical

歌手： West End Stars

时长： 02:36

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Why Can't the English? - West End Stars[00:00:00]

Look at her a prisoner of the gutters [00:00:10]

Condemned by every syllable she utters[00:00:14]

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

For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [00:00:20]

Aaoooww [00:00:23]

Aaoooww [00:00:24]

Heavens What a noise [00:00:25]

This is what the British population [00:00:27]

Calls an elementary education [00:00:31]

Oh Counsel I think you picked a poor example [00:00:34]

Did I [00:00:36]

Hear them down in Soho square [00:00:38]

Dropping "h's" everywhere [00:00:40]

Speaking English anyway they like [00:00:42]

You sir did you go to school [00:00:45]

Wadaya tike me for a fool [00:00:47]

No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike [00:00:49]

Hear a Yorkshire man or worse [00:00:52]

Hear a Cornishman converse [00:00:54]

I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [00:00:56]

Chickens cackling in a barn [00:00:59]

Just like this one[00:01:01]

Gaaarn[00:01:02]

Gaaarn [00:01:03]

I ask you Sir what sort of word is that [00:01:03]

It's "aoow" and "gaarn"[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 their children[00:01:13]

How to speak [00:01:16]

This verbal class distinction by now [00:01:17]

Should be antique [00:01:19]

If you spoke as she does sir [00:01:20]

Instead of the way you do [00:01:22]

Why you might be selling flowers too [00:01:24]

I beg your pardon [00:01:26]

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him [00:01:27]

The moment he talks he makes some other[00:01:31]

Englishman despise him [00:01:33]

One common language I'm afraid we'll never get [00:01:34]

Oh why can't the English learn to[00:01:38]

Set a good example to people whose[00:01:42]

English is painful to your ears [00:01:44]

The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [00:01:48]

There even are places[00:01:51]

Where English completely disappears [00:01:53]

In America they haven't used it for years [00:01:56]

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [00:02:00]

Norwegians learn Norwegian;[00:02:03]

The Greeks have taught their Greek [00:02:05]

In France every Frenchman knows[00:02:07]

His language fro "A" to "Zed"[00:02:09]

The French never care what they do actually [00:02:10]

As long as they pronounce it properly [00:02:13]

Arabians learn Arabian[00:02:16]

With the speed of summer lightning [00:02:17]

And Hebrews learn it backwards [00:02:19]

Which is absolutely frightening [00:02:21]

But use proper English you're regarded as a freak [00:02:23]

Why can't the English [00:02:26]

Why can't the English learn to speak[00:02:30]