My Fair Lady - Why Can't The English (Higgins, Pickering, Eliza) (音乐剧《窈窕淑女》 - 为什么英国人学不会（希金斯、皮克林、伊莱莎）)-Rex Harrison

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[00:00.00]Why Can't The English (Higgins, Pickering, Eliza) - Rex Harrison/Robert Coote/Julie Andrews/Studio Orchestra
[00:11.48]Look at her a prisoner of the gutter
[00:14.64]Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered
[00:17.54]By law she should be taken out and hung
[00:20.30]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue
[00:23.79]Aaoooww Henry imitating her
[00:26.96]This is what the British population
[00:30.43]Calls an elementary education Pickering Oh
[00:33.24]Counsel I think you picked a poor example
[00:35.84]Henry Did I
[00:37.50]Hear them down in Soho square
[00:39.39]Dropping"h's" everywhere
[00:41.00]Speaking English anyway they like
[00:44.58]You sir did you go to school
[00:46.41]Man Wadaya tike me for a fool
[00:48.00]Henry No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike
[00:51.83]Hear a Yorkshireman or worse
[00:53.50]Hear a Cornishman converse
[00:55.07]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat
[00:58.56]Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one
[01:02.17]Eliza Garn Henry I ask you sir
[01:05.00]What sort of word is that
[01:07.37]It's"Aoooow" and"Garn" that keep her in her place
[01:11.73]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
[01:15.74]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak
[01:19.32]This verbal class distinction by now should be antique
[01:22.97]If you spoke as she does sir Instead of the way you do
[01:26.66]Why you might be selling flowers too
[01:28.90]An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
[01:33.68]The moment he talks he makes some other
[01:36.01]Englishman despise him
[01:37.53]One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
[01:40.77]Oh why can't the English learn to set
[01:45.67]A good example to people whose
[01:47.78]English is painful to your ears
[01:51.06]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears
[01:54.41]There even are places where English completely
[01:57.97]Disappears In America they haven't used it for years
[02:03.02]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak
[02:06.65]Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
[02:08.58]Greek In France every Frenchman knows
[02:11.04]His language fro"A" to"Zed"
[02:14.51]As long as they pronounce in properly
[02:18.45]Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning
[02:22.04]And Hebrews learn it backwards
[02:23.79]Which is absolutely frightening
[02:25.83]But use proper English you're regarded as a freak
[02:29.40]Why can't the English
[02:32.98]Why can't the English learn to speak