《Why Can’t the English》歌词

歌曲： Why Can’t the English

所属专辑：My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording

歌手： Alan Jay Lerner

时长： 02:44

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Why Can't the English - Alan Jay Lerner[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 law she should be taken out and hung [00:00:17]

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

Aaoooww Henry imitating her[00:00:23]

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

Calls an elementary education Pickering Oh [00:00:30]

Counsel I think you picked a poor example[00:00:33]

Henry Did I [00:00:35]

Hear them down in Soho square [00:00:37]

Dropping "h's" everywhere [00:00:39]

Speaking English anyway they like [00:00:41]

You sir did you go to school [00:00:44]

Man Wadaya tike me for a fool [00:00:46]

Henry No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike [00:00:48]

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

Hear a Cornishman converse [00:00:53]

I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [00:00:55]

Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one [00:00:58]

Eliza Garn Henry I ask you sir[00:01:02]

What sort of word is that [00:01:05]

It's "Aoooow" and "Garn" that keep her in her place [00:01:07]

Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [00:01:11]

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [00:01:15]

This verbal class distinction by now should be antique [00:01:19]

If you spoke as she does sir Instead of the way you do [00:01:22]

Why you might be selling flowers too [00:01:26]

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him [00:01:28]

The moment he talks he makes some other[00:01:33]

Englishman despise him [00:01:36]

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

Oh why can't the English learn to set[00:01:40]

A good example to people whose[00:01:45]

English is painful to your ears [00:01:47]

The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [00:01:51]

There even are places where English completely[00:01:54]

Disappears In America they haven't used it for years [00:01:57]

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [00:02:03]

Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their[00:02:06]

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

His language fro "A" to "Zed"[00:02:11]

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

Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning [00:02:18]

And Hebrews learn it backwards [00:02:22]

Which is absolutely frightening [00:02:23]

But use proper English you're regarded as a freak [00:02:25]

Why can't the English [00:02:29]

Why can't the English learn to speak[00:02:32]