Why Can't The English?
- Jonathan Pryce (2001)You are listening to the song Why Can't The English? by Jonathan Pryce, writer by Frederick Loewe;Alan Jay Lerner in album My Fair Lady: 2001 London Cast Recording. The highest quality of audio that you can download is flac . Also, you can play quality at 32kbps, view lyrics and watch more videos related to this song.
- Prologue - Orchestra
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - Jonathan Pryce
- Ascot Gavotte - Ensemble
- Get Me To The Church On Time - Dennis Waterman
- Why Can't The English? - Jonathan Pryce
- Wouldn't It Be Loverly? - David Burrows
- With A Little Bit Of Luck - Dennis Waterman
- I'm An Ordinary Man - Jonathan Pryce
- Just You Wait - Martine McCutcheon
- Poor Professor Higgins - Company
- The Rain In Spain - Jonathan Pryce
- I Could Have Danced All Night - Martine McCutcheon
- On The Street Where You Live - Mark Umbers
- Eliza's Entrance - The Orchestra
- The Embassy Waltz - The Orchestra
- You Did It - Jonathan Pryce
- Show Me - Mark Umbers
- Get Me To The Church On Time (Reprise) - Dennis Waterman
- A Hymn To Him - Jonathan Pryce
- Without You - Jonathan Pryce
Lyrics
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!
[Higgins:] 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?
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