Why Can't The English-Wilfrid Hyde-White/Marni Nixon/Rex Harrison

[ti:Why Can't The English] [ar:窈窕淑女] [al:窈窕淑女(1964电影原声音乐)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.58]Look at her [00:01.58]A prisoner of the gutter [00:02.52] [00:03.84]Condemned by every syllable she utters [00:05.70] [00:07.24]By right she should be taken out and hung [00:09.11] [00:10.09]For the cold blooded murder [00:11.98]Of the English tongue [00:13.53]Aaoooww [00:14.42]Aaoooww [00:15.49]Heavens What a sound [00:16.54] [00:17.34]This is what the British population [00:18.68] [00:20.11]Calls an elementary education [00:22.11] [00:22.81]Oh Counsel [00:23.53]I think you picked a poor example [00:25.21] [00:25.72]Did I [00:26.36] [00:27.54]Hear them down in Soho square [00:29.52]Dropping he's everywhere [00:31.53]Speaking English anyway they like [00:33.41] [00:34.95]You sir did you go to school [00:36.96]Wadaya tike me for a fool [00:38.74]No one taught him take instead of tike [00:40.91] [00:42.57]Hear a Yorkshire man or worse [00:44.40]Hear a Cornishman converse [00:46.23]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat [00:48.18] [00:49.65]Chickens cackling in a barn [00:52.23]Just like this one [00:53.15] [00:56.57]I ask you Sir [00:57.85]What sort of word is that [00:59.09] [00:59.95]It's aoow and gaarn [01:01.30]That keep her in her place [01:02.50] [01:03.35]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face [01:05.52] [01:07.28]Why can't the English teach [01:09.13]Their children how to speak [01:10.24] [01:10.81]This verbal class distinction by now [01:13.51]Should be antique [01:14.18] [01:14.74]If you spoke as she does sir [01:16.56]Instead of the way you do [01:17.71] [01:18.40]Why you might be selling flowers too [01:20.89]I beg your pardon [01:22.29]An Englishman's way [01:22.86]Of speaking absolutely classifies him [01:25.25] [01:26.00]The moment he talks he makes some other [01:27.74]Englishman despise him [01:28.79] [01:29.83]One common language [01:31.17]I'm afraid we'll never get [01:32.84]Oh why can't the English learn to [01:36.26] [01:37.04]Set a good example to people whose [01:39.84]English is painful to your ears [01:41.77] [01:42.93]The Scotch and [01:43.72]The Irish leave you close to tears [01:45.24] [01:46.45]There even are places [01:47.87]Where English completely [01:49.52]Disappears [01:50.26] [01:51.20]In America they haven't used it for years [01:53.15] [01:55.10]Why can't the English teach [01:56.48]Their children how to speak [01:57.68] [01:58.22]Norwegians learn Norwegian; [02:00.09]The Greeks have taught their Greek [02:01.77]In France every Frenchman knows [02:03.87]His language for A to Zed [02:05.00] [02:06.31]The French never care what they do [02:07.51]Actually [02:07.71]As long as they pronounce it properly [02:09.30] [02:10.83]Arabians learn Arabian with [02:12.79]The speed of summer lightning [02:13.85] [02:14.50]And Hebrews learn it backwards [02:15.95]Which is absolutely frightening [02:17.39] [02:18.18]But use proper English [02:19.59]You're regarded as a freak [02:21.05] [02:21.73]Why can't the English [02:23.42] [02:25.75]Why can't the English learn to speak [02:29.85]Why Can't The English - 窈窕淑女