Why Can't the English? (Voice) - Wilfrid Hyde-White/Marni Nixon.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Alan Jay Lerner
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Frederick Loewe
[00:00.00]Henry Higgins: Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
[00:03.92]Condemned by every syllable she utters
[00:07.02]By right she should be taken out and hung,
[00:10.14]For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
[00:13.90]Eliza Doolittle: Aaoooww!
[00:14.59]Henry (imitating her): Aaoooww!
[00:15.86]Heavens! What a sound!
[00:17.55]This is what the British population,
[00:20.50]Calls an elementary education.
[00:23.17]Pickering: Oh,Counsel, I think you picked a poor example.
[00:25.72]Henry: Did I?
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[00:29.47]Dropping "h's" everywhere.
[00:31.34]Speaking English anyway they like.
[00:34.74]You sir, did you go to school?
[00:37.07]Man: Wadaya tike me for, a fool?
[00:38.64]Henry: No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike!
[00:42.37]Hear a Yorkshire man, or worse, hear a Cornishman converse.
[00:46.25]I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.
[00:49.50]Chickens, cackling in a barn, just like this one (pointing to Eliza)
[00:53.50]Eliza: Gaaarn
[00:54.76]Henry (writing, imitating Eliza): Gaaarn..
[00:56.77]I ask you Sir, what sort of word is that? (to Pickering)
[01:00.00]It's "aoow" and "gaarn" that keep her in her place
[01:03.34]Not her wretched clothes and dirty face
[01:06.71]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
[01:10.77]This verbal class distinction, by now,
[01:13.45]Should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir,
[01:16.67]Instead of the way you do,
[01:18.77]Why, you might be selling flowers, too!
[01:21.63]Pickering: I beg your pardon!
[01:22.45]Henry: An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
[01:25.85]The moment he talks he makes some other
[01:27.72]Englishman despise him.
[01:29.45]One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
[01:32.70]Oh, why can't the English learn to
[01:36.71]set a good example to people whose
[01:39.84]English is painful to your ears?
[01:42.63]The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
[01:46.15]There even are places where English completely disappears.
[01:51.24]Well, in America, they haven't used it for years!
[01:55.08]Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
[01:58.07]Norwegians learn Norwegian
[02:00.06]The Greeks have taught their Greek.
[02:01.97]In France every Frenchman knows
[02:03.80]his language from "A" to "Zed"
[02:06.43]The French never care what they do, actually,
[02:08.17]as long as they pronounce it properly.
[02:10.96]Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
[02:14.59]And Hebrews learn it backwards,
[02:16.14]which is absolutely frightening.
[02:18.06]Use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
[02:21.76]Why can't the English,
[02:25.36]Why can't the English learn to speak?
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