歌曲名 My Fair Lady Why Can Not The English 歌手名 Rex Harrison+Robert Coote

作词：Alan Jay Lerner

作曲：Frederick Loewe

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 sound

This is what the British population

Calls an elementary education

Oh Counsel

I think you picked a poor example

Did I

Hear them down in Soho square

Dropping he'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 Yorkshire man or worse

Hear a Cornishman converse

I'd rather hear a choir singing flat

Chickens cackling in a barn

Just like this one

I ask you Sir

What sort of word is that

It's aoow and gaarn

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 Scotch 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 have taught their Greek

In France every Frenchman knows

His language for 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

And Hebrews learn it backwards

Which is absolutely frightening

But use proper English

You're regarded as a freak

Why can't the English

Why can't the English learn to speak