《Why Can’t The English?》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:30] Calls an elementary education

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

[00:00:35] Did I

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

[00:00:38] Dropping his everywhere

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:52] Hear a Cornishman converse

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

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

[00:01:00] Just like this one

[00:01:03] I ask you sir

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:18] This verbal class distinction

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:30] Speaking absolutely classifies him

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

[00:01:34] Englishman despise him

[00:01:36] One common language

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:53] There even are places

[00:01:55] Where English completely

[00:01:56] Disappears

[00:01:58] In America

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

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

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

[00:02:05] Norwegians learn Norwegian

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:17] Arabians learn Arabian

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

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

[00:02:22] Which is absolutely frightening

[00:02:24] But use proper English

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

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

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