rex harrison、robert coote、Julie Andrews、franz allers《Why Can t the English?》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:11.66]Look at her a prisoner of the gutters [00:14.68]Condemned by every syllable she ever utters [00:17.59]By right she should be taken out and hung [00:20.35]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [00:23.56]Aaoooww [00:24.34]Henry [00:24.98]Aaoooww Heavens what a sound [00:28.29]This is what the British population [00:31.63]Calls an elementary education [00:34.08]Oh come Sir I think you picked a poor example [00:36.79]Did I [00:38.74]Hear them down in Soho square [00:40.91]Dropping h's everywhere [00:42.61]Speaking English anyway they like [00:46.16]You Sir did you go to school [00:48.09]Wadaya tike me for a fool [00:49.69]No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike [00:53.49]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse [00:55.45]Hear a Cornishman converse [00:57.10]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [01:00.74]Chickens cackling in a barn [01:03.14]Just like this one [01:04.04]Garn [01:05.57]Henry [01:05.79]Garn I ask you Sir what sort of word is that [01:10.54]It's Aoooow and Garn that keep her in her place [01:14.54]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [01:18.64]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [01:22.27]This verbal class distinction by now should be antique [01:26.18]If you spoke as she does [01:27.77]Sir Instead of the way you do [01:29.91]Why you might be selling flowers too [01:32.26]I beg your pardon Sir [01:33.63]An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him [01:37.17]The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him [01:41.03]One common language I'm afraid we'll never get [01:44.17]Oh why can't the English learn to set [01:48.44]A good example to people whose English is painful to your ears [01:54.46]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [01:58.03]There even are places where English completely disappears [02:03.13]In America they haven't used it for years [02:06.69]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [02:10.11]Norwegians learn Norwegian the Greeks are taught their Greek [02:13.72]In France every Frenchman knows his language from A to Zed [02:17.94]The French never care what they do actually [02:19.50]As long as they pronounce it properly [02:22.79]Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning [02:26.23]And Hebrews learn it backwards which is absolutely frightening [02:29.97]But use proper English you're regarded as a freak [02:33.41]Oh why can't the English [02:37.40]Why can't the English learn to speak