时间：2017-06-03
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Overture - Why Can't the English? - Julie Andrews
Look at her a prisoner of the gutter
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
Aaoooww
Aaoooww
Heavens what a noise
This is what the British population
Calls an elementary education
Come sir I think you picked a poor example
Did I
Hear them down in Soho square
Dropping"h's" everywhere
Speaking English anyway they like
You sir did you go to school
Wadaya tike me for a fool
No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike'
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse
Hear a Cornishman converse
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
Chickens cackling in a barn
Just like this one here
Garn
I ask you sir what sort of word is that
It's"Aaoooww" and
"Garn" that keep her in her place
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
Why can't the English teach
Their children how to speak
This verbal class distinction by now
Should be antique
If you spoke as she does sir
Instead of the way you do
Why you might be selling flowers too
I beg your pardon
An Englishman's way of
Speaking absolutely classifies him
The moment he talks he
Makes some other Englishman despise him
One common language
I'm afraid we'll never get
Oh why can't the English learn to
Set a good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
There even are places where
English completely disappears
In America they haven't used it for years
Why can't the English teach
Their children how to speak
Norwegians learn Norwegian
The Greeks are taught their Greek
In France every Frenchman
Knows his language from"A" to"Zed"
The French never care what they do
Actually as long as they pronounce it properly
Arabians learn Arabian with
The speed of summer lightning
The Hebrews learn it backwards
Which is absolutely frightening
But use proper English
And you're regarded as a freak
Why can't the English
Why can't the English learn
To Speak
