文本歌词

Why Can't The English? (《窈窕淑女》百老汇插曲) - Rex Harrison/Franz Allers/The My Fair Lady Orchestra
Look at her a prisoner of the gutter
Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered
By right she should be taken out and hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
Heaven's What a noise
This is what the British population
Calls an elementary education
Counsel I think you picked a poor example
Did I
Hear them down in Soho square
Dropping his everywhere
Speaking English anyway they like
You sir did you go to school
Wadaya like me for a fool
No one taught him take instead of like
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse
Hear a Cornishman converse
I'd rather hear a quite singing flat
Chickens cackling in a barn
Just like this one
I ask you sir
What sort of word is that
It's Aoooow 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
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 made to Zed
The French never care what they do actually
As long as they pronounce in 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