文本歌词

Why I'm Here (Explicit) - MIKE
It is surely time that the speech
Of the black culture of America
Be recognized as a genuine dialect of english
It is in every sense of the word
And that's why I'm here
Merry Christmas to you all
And I'll see you next year
Hey now I'm better than I thought I was
You sure are Lenora that was great
Very proper english is it
If that's the proper spelling
Why is it so easy
Here Lenora try this
I then gave her a copy of the original
Standard english version of the poem
Uh uh what's that
'Twas'
What's that mean
It means it was go ahead Lenora
I'll help you if you have any trouble
T-Twas the the night before Christmas
And all through the house not a crea-crea
How come I'm gettin' so mixed up
Well it's a little different than the
One you first read
That should be creature
Oh I see creature was st-stirring
Not even a mouse
Lenora's problem with the regular version
Of the poem was that she could not
Cope with the unfamiliar grammar
The translated version used standard
English spellings so it was apparent
That sound spelling correspondences
Were not entirely the problem
'The moon on the on the roof
The from falling snow gave the
Gave the land of really thing to
Objects below
Good
I'm glad that's over
This unplanned experiment was duplicated
With other inner city children and always
With positive results it's suggested that