Why Can't the English-Alan Jay Lerner

[ti:Why Can't the English] [ar:Alan Jay Lerner] [al:My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why Can't the English - Alan Jay Lerner [00:11.48]Look at her a prisoner of the gutter [00:13.48] [00:14.64]Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered [00:16.92] [00:17.54]By law she should be taken out and hung [00:19.63] [00:20.30]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue [00:22.99] [00:23.79]Aaoooww Henry imitating her [00:26.37] [00:26.96]This is what the British population [00:29.26] [00:30.43]Calls an elementary education Pickering Oh [00:33.24]Counsel I think you picked a poor example [00:35.84]Henry Did I [00:36.70] [00:37.50]Hear them down in Soho square [00:39.39]Dropping "h's" everywhere [00:41.00]Speaking English anyway they like [00:42.63] [00:44.58]You sir did you go to school [00:46.41]Man Wadaya tike me for a fool [00:48.00]Henry No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike [00:50.36] [00:51.83]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse [00:53.50]Hear a Cornishman converse [00:54.49] [00:55.07]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [00:56.62] [00:58.56]Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one [01:02.17]Eliza Garn Henry I ask you sir [01:05.00]What sort of word is that [01:06.65] [01:07.37]It's "Aoooow" and "Garn" that keep her in her place [01:10.46] [01:11.73]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [01:14.07] [01:15.74]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [01:19.32]This verbal class distinction by now should be antique [01:22.97]If you spoke as she does sir Instead of the way you do [01:26.66]Why you might be selling flowers too [01:28.90]An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him [01:32.81] [01:33.68]The moment he talks he makes some other [01:36.01]Englishman despise him [01:36.89] [01:37.53]One common language I'm afraid we'll never get [01:40.77]Oh why can't the English learn to set [01:44.99] [01:45.67]A good example to people whose [01:47.78]English is painful to your ears [01:49.39] [01:51.06]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears [01:53.44] [01:54.41]There even are places where English completely [01:57.07] [01:57.97]Disappears In America they haven't used it for years [02:01.54] [02:03.02]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak [02:06.65]Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their [02:08.58]Greek In France every Frenchman knows [02:11.04]His language fro "A" to "Zed" [02:12.57] [02:14.51]As long as they pronounce in properly [02:16.39] [02:18.45]Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning [02:22.04]And Hebrews learn it backwards [02:23.79]Which is absolutely frightening [02:25.07] [02:25.83]But use proper English you're regarded as a freak [02:29.40]Why can't the English [02:30.60] [02:32.98]Why can't the English learn to speak