Overture - Why Can't the English?-Rex Harrison

[ti:My Fair Lady: Overture/ Why Can't the English?] [ar:Julie Andrews] [al:Julie Andrews Sings, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Overture - Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison [02:59.65]Look at her a prisoner of the gutter [03:01.82] [03:02.58]Condemned by every syllable she utters [03:04.76] [03:05.60]By right she should be taken out and hung [03:07.52] [03:08.25]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [03:11.60]Aaoooww [03:12.81]Aaoooww [03:14.38]Heavens what a noise [03:16.33]This is what the British population [03:18.95] [03:19.74]Calls an elementary education [03:22.34]Come sir I think you picked a poor example [03:24.98]Did I [03:25.44] [03:26.87]Hear them down in Soho square [03:29.02]Dropping "h's" everywhere [03:30.69]Speaking English anyway they like [03:32.95] [03:34.23]You sir did you go to school [03:36.25]Wadaya tike me for a fool [03:38.12]No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike' [03:40.10] [03:41.74]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse [03:43.71]Hear a Cornishman converse [03:45.40]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [03:47.41] [03:48.91]Chickens cackling in a barn [03:50.83] [03:51.54]Just like this one here [03:53.02]Garn [03:53.99] [03:55.99]I ask you sir what sort of word is that [03:58.28] [03:58.88]It's "Aaoooww" and [04:00.05]"Garn" that keep her in her place [04:02.10] [04:02.90]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [04:05.46] [04:06.98]Why can't the English teach [04:08.89]Their children how to speak [04:10.69]This verbal class distinction by now [04:13.33]Should be antique [04:14.20] [04:14.77]If you spoke as she does sir [04:16.66]Instead of the way you do [04:18.13]Why you might be selling flowers too [04:20.93]I beg your pardon [04:21.87]An Englishman's way of [04:23.29]Speaking absolutely classifies him [04:25.23] [04:25.82]The moment he talks he [04:27.02]Makes some other Englishman despise him [04:29.51]One common language [04:30.98]I'm afraid we'll never get [04:32.69]Oh why can't the English learn to [04:36.86]Set a good example to people whose [04:39.88]English is painful to your ears [04:41.96] [04:43.03]The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears [04:45.65] [04:46.67]There even are places where [04:48.64]English completely disappears [04:50.63] [04:51.67]In America they haven't used it for years [04:54.03] [04:55.25]Why can't the English teach [04:56.89]Their children how to speak [04:58.18] [04:58.73]Norwegians learn Norwegian [05:00.71]The Greeks are taught their Greek [05:02.38]In France every Frenchman [05:03.76]Knows his language from "A" to "Zed" [05:05.65] [05:06.65]The French never care what they do [05:07.70]Actually as long as they pronounce it properly [05:09.64] [05:11.52]Arabians learn Arabian with [05:13.30]The speed of summer lightning [05:15.04]The Hebrews learn it backwards [05:16.57]Which is absolutely frightening [05:18.70]But use proper English [05:20.16]And you're regarded as a freak [05:22.23]Why can't the English [05:24.17] [05:26.18]Why can't the English learn [05:28.58] [05:29.47]To Speak