Why Can't The English?-Rex Harrison/Franz Allers/The My Fair Lady Orchestra

[ti:Why Can't The English?] [ar:Original Broadway Cast Recording] [al:My Fair Lady] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why Can't The English? (《窈窕淑女》百老汇插曲) - Rex Harrison/Franz Allers/The My Fair Lady Orchestra [00:11.01]Look at her a prisoner of the gutter [00:12.94] [00:14.24]Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered [00:15.90] [00:17.02]By right she should be taken out and hung [00:18.63] [00:19.78]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [00:22.49] [00:24.75]Heaven's What a noise [00:25.59] [00:26.40]This is what the British population [00:28.68] [00:30.01]Calls an elementary education [00:32.33]Counsel I think you picked a poor example [00:34.52] [00:35.09]Did I [00:35.58] [00:36.98]Hear them down in Soho square [00:38.78]Dropping his everywhere [00:40.40]Speaking English anyway they like [00:42.34] [00:43.96]You sir did you go to school [00:46.04]Wadaya like me for a fool [00:47.64]No one taught him take instead of like [00:49.30] [00:51.22]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse [00:52.88]Hear a Cornishman converse [00:54.47]I'd rather hear a quite singing flat [00:56.21] [00:57.96]Chickens cackling in a barn [00:59.31] [01:00.19]Just like this one [01:01.20] [01:03.67]I ask you sir [01:04.36]What sort of word is that [01:05.35] [01:06.58]It's Aoooow and Garn [01:08.23]That keep her in her place [01:09.44] [01:10.98]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [01:13.43] [01:15.01]Why can't the English teach [01:16.78]Their children how to speak [01:17.88] [01:18.46]This verbal class distinction [01:20.25]By now should be antique [01:21.42] [01:22.11]If you spoke as she does [01:23.57]Sir instead of the way you do [01:25.09] [01:25.69]Why you might be selling flowers too [01:27.72] [01:29.35]An Englishman's way of [01:30.22]Speaking absolutely classifies him [01:32.32] [01:32.89]The moment he talks he makes some other [01:34.69]Englishman despise him [01:35.90] [01:36.63]One common language [01:37.98]I'm afraid we'll never get [01:39.31] [01:39.83]Oh why can't the English learn to set [01:44.20]A good example to people whose [01:46.54]English is painful to your ears [01:48.23] [01:49.90]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [01:51.92] [01:53.49]There even are places [01:55.19]Where English completely [01:56.77]Disappears [01:57.15] [01:58.45]In America [01:59.05]They haven't used it for years [02:00.08] [02:02.03]Why can't the English teach [02:03.51]Their children how to speak [02:04.59] [02:05.29]Norwegians learn Norwegian [02:06.98]The Greeks have taught their Greek [02:08.19] [02:08.85]In France every Frenchman knows [02:10.70]His language made to Zed [02:11.82] [02:12.85]The French never care what they do actually [02:14.34]As long as they pronounce in properly [02:15.54] [02:17.39]Arabians learn Arabian [02:18.86]With the speed of summer lightning [02:20.15] [02:20.93]And Hebrews learn it backwards [02:22.54]Which is absolutely frightening [02:23.88] [02:24.61]But use proper English [02:26.03]You're regarded as a freak [02:27.53] [02:28.30]Why can't the English [02:29.46] [02:31.94]Why can't the English learn to speak