Overture - Why Can't The English-Julie Andrews

[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 - Julie Andrews (茱莉·安德鲁斯) [02:59.67]Look at her a prisoner of the gutter [03:01.85] [03:02.61]Condemned by every syllable she utters [03:04.79] [03:05.63]By right she should be taken out and hung [03:07.55] [03:08.28]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [03:11.63]Aaoooww [03:12.84]Aaoooww [03:14.41]Heavens what a noise [03:16.36]This is what the British population [03:18.98] [03:19.77]Calls an elementary education [03:22.37]Come sir I think you picked a poor example [03:25.01]Did I [03:25.47] [03:26.90]Hear them down in Soho square [03:29.05]Dropping "h's" everywhere [03:30.72]Speaking English anyway they like [03:32.98] [03:34.26]You sir did you go to school [03:36.28]Wadaya tike me for a fool [03:38.14]No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike' [03:40.12] [03:41.76]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse [03:43.73]Hear a Cornishman converse [03:45.42]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [03:47.43] [03:48.93]Chickens cackling in a barn [03:50.85] [03:51.56]Just like this one here [03:53.04]Garn [03:54.01] [03:56.01]I ask you sir what sort of word is that [03:58.30] [03:58.90]It's "Aaoooww" and [04:00.07]"Garn" that keep her in her place [04:02.12] [04:02.92]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [04:05.48] [04:07.00]Why can't the English teach [04:08.91]Their children how to speak [04:10.71]This verbal class distinction by now [04:13.35]Should be antique [04:14.22] [04:14.79]If you spoke as she does sir [04:16.68]Instead of the way you do [04:18.15]Why you might be selling flowers too [04:20.95]I beg your pardon [04:21.89]An Englishman's way of [04:23.32]Speaking absolutely classifies him [04:25.26] [04:25.85]The moment he talks he [04:27.05]Makes some other Englishman despise him [04:29.54]One common language [04:31.01]I'm afraid we'll never get [04:32.72]Oh why can't the English learn to [04:36.89]Set a good example to people whose [04:39.91]English is painful to your ears [04:41.99] [04:43.06]The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears [04:45.68] [04:46.70]There even are places where [04:48.67]English completely disappears [04:50.66] [04:51.70]In America they haven't used it for years [04:54.06] [04:55.28]Why can't the English teach [04:56.92]Their children how to speak [04:58.21] [04:58.76]Norwegians learn Norwegian [05:00.74]The Greeks are taught their Greek [05:02.41]In France every Frenchman [05:03.79]Knows his language from "A" to "Zed" [05:05.68] [05:06.68]The French never care what they do [05:07.73]Actually as long as they pronounce it properly [05:09.66] [05:11.54]Arabians learn Arabian with [05:13.32]The speed of summer lightning [05:15.06]The Hebrews learn it backwards [05:16.59]Which is absolutely frightening [05:18.72]But use proper English [05:20.18]And you're regarded as a freak [05:22.25]Why can't the English [05:24.19] [05:26.20]Why can't the English learn [05:28.60] [05:29.49]To Speak