Why Can't The English-The New Musical Cast

[ti:Why Can't The English] [ar:The New Musical Cast] [al:My Fair Lady - The Musical] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why Can't The English - The New Musical Cast [00:11.33]Look at her a prisoner of the gutters [00:14.40]Condemned by every syllable she utters [00:17.68]By right she should be taken out and hung [00:20.83]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [00:23.87]Aaoooww [00:24.99]Aaoooww [00:26.20]Heavens What a noise [00:27.99]This is what the British population [00:31.43]Calls an elementary education [00:34.39]Oh Counsel I think you picked a poor example [00:37.31]Did I [00:38.40] [00:39.20]Hear them down in Soho square [00:41.23]Dropping "h's" everywhere [00:42.47]Speaking English anyway they like [00:44.76] [00:45.96]You sir did you go to school [00:48.04]Wadaya tike me for a fool [00:49.67]No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike [00:53.04]Hear a Yorkshire man or worse [00:54.93]Hear a Cornishman converse [00:56.59]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [00:59.43] [01:00.22]Chickens cackling in a barn [01:02.14]Just like this one [01:03.04]Gaaarn [01:03.64]Gaaarn [01:04.33]I ask you Sir what sort of word is that [01:06.62]It's "aoow" and "gaarn" [01:08.65]That keep her in her place [01:10.87]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [01:13.47] [01:14.12]Why can't the English teach their children [01:16.44]How to speak [01:17.73]This verbal class distinction by now [01:20.02]Should be antique [01:21.22]If you spoke as she does sir [01:23.09]Instead of the way you do [01:24.70]Why you might be selling flowers too [01:27.06]I beg your pardon [01:28.33]An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him [01:31.61]The moment he talks he makes some other [01:33.69]Englishman despise him [01:35.26]One common language I'm afraid we'll never get [01:38.56]Oh why can't the English learn to [01:42.43]Set a good example to people whose [01:45.35]English is painful to your ears [01:47.56] [01:48.45]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [01:52.05]There even are places [01:53.50]Where English completely disappears [01:56.77]In America they haven't used it for years [01:59.38] [02:00.93]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [02:03.98]Norwegians learn Norwegian; [02:05.62]The Greeks have taught their Greek [02:07.64]In France every Frenchman knows [02:09.52]His language fro "A" to "Zed" [02:11.26]The French never care what they do actually [02:13.39]As long as they pronounce it properly [02:15.40] [02:16.52]Arabians learn Arabian [02:18.03]With the speed of summer lightning [02:20.05]And Hebrews learn it backwards [02:21.50]Which is absolutely frightening [02:23.48]But use proper English you're regarded as a freak [02:26.87]Why can't the English [02:29.24] [02:30.82]Why can't the English learn to speak