Chords for Jeremy Irons - Why can't the English learn to speak?
Tempo:
143.25 bpm
Chords used:
C
F
G
D
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] Look at her, a prisoner [G] of the gutters, condemned [D] by every syllable [Eb] she utters.
[G] By right she should be taken out and [D] hung [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
[B] [G]
[E] Heavens, what a noise.
This is what the British [D] population
[Db] calls an elementary [B] education.
[Eb] [Ebm] [F]
Hear them down in Soho Square, dropping H's everywhere, speaking English any [C] way they like.
[Db] You, sir, [Gm] did you go to [Abm] school?
What did you [C] take me [G] for, a fool?
No one [F] taught him taking, some tyke.
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a Cornishman.
[Bb] I'd rather hear a choir.
[Eb]
[E] [Eb] [C] She begins [G] cackling in her [Bb] barn, just like this one.
[G] [D] Gah!
Gah.
[G] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
[C] It's ow and gah [Db] that keep her in [C] her place, not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
[F] Why can't [C] the English teach their children how to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class distinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, it's there on the way you do.
[Db] [F] Why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
[E] An Englishman's way [F] of [Em] speaking absolutely [Ab] classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
If he [Bb] speaks proper English, you're regarded [Gm] as a freak.
[F]
Why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn [C] to [G]
set a good [D] example to people whose English is painful to your ears?
[Cm] [Em] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
[E] There [D] even are [Bm] places where English completely [E] disappears.
In America, they haven't used it for years.
[C]
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian, [F] the Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France, every [A] Frenchman [Gm] knows his language from A to Z.
[G] The French never care for what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it [Dm] properly.
[E] [Dm] [G] Arabians [Am] learn [Em] Arabian with the speed of [Ab] summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn it backwards, [C] which is absolutely frightening.
[F] If you [Gm] spoke proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C]
can't the [F] [C]
English learn [Dm] to speak?
[Ab] [F] [G]
[G] By right she should be taken out and [D] hung [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
[B] [G]
[E] Heavens, what a noise.
This is what the British [D] population
[Db] calls an elementary [B] education.
[Eb] [Ebm] [F]
Hear them down in Soho Square, dropping H's everywhere, speaking English any [C] way they like.
[Db] You, sir, [Gm] did you go to [Abm] school?
What did you [C] take me [G] for, a fool?
No one [F] taught him taking, some tyke.
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a Cornishman.
[Bb] I'd rather hear a choir.
[Eb]
[E] [Eb] [C] She begins [G] cackling in her [Bb] barn, just like this one.
[G] [D] Gah!
Gah.
[G] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
[C] It's ow and gah [Db] that keep her in [C] her place, not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
[F] Why can't [C] the English teach their children how to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class distinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, it's there on the way you do.
[Db] [F] Why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
[E] An Englishman's way [F] of [Em] speaking absolutely [Ab] classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
If he [Bb] speaks proper English, you're regarded [Gm] as a freak.
[F]
Why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn [C] to [G]
set a good [D] example to people whose English is painful to your ears?
[Cm] [Em] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
[E] There [D] even are [Bm] places where English completely [E] disappears.
In America, they haven't used it for years.
[C]
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian, [F] the Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France, every [A] Frenchman [Gm] knows his language from A to Z.
[G] The French never care for what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it [Dm] properly.
[E] [Dm] [G] Arabians [Am] learn [Em] Arabian with the speed of [Ab] summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn it backwards, [C] which is absolutely frightening.
[F] If you [Gm] spoke proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C]
can't the [F] [C]
English learn [Dm] to speak?
[Ab] [F] [G]
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_ [D] Look at her, a prisoner [G] of the gutters, _ condemned [D] by every syllable [Eb] she utters.
[G] By right she should be taken out and [D] hung _ [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue. _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ Heavens, what a noise.
_ _ This is what the British [D] population _ _ _
[Db] _ calls an elementary _ [B] education.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ Hear them down in Soho Square, dropping H's everywhere, speaking English any [C] way they like.
_ [Db] You, sir, [Gm] did you go to [Abm] school?
What did you [C] take me [G] for, a fool?
No one [F] taught him taking, some tyke.
_ _ Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a Cornishman.
[Bb] _ I'd rather hear a choir.
[Eb] _
_ [E] _ [Eb] _ [C] She begins [G] cackling in her [Bb] barn, just like this one.
[G] _ [D] Gah!
_ _ Gah.
[G] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
_ _ [C] It's ow and gah [Db] that keep her in [C] her place, _ _ _ _ not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
_ _ [F] Why can't [C] the English teach their children how to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class distinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, it's there on the way you do.
[Db] [F] Why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
_ _ [E] An Englishman's way [F] of [Em] speaking absolutely [Ab] classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
If he [Bb] speaks proper English, you're regarded [Gm] as a freak.
[F]
Why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn [C] to [G]
set a good [D] example to people whose English is painful to your ears?
_ [Cm] [Em] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
_ [E] There [D] even are [Bm] places where English completely [E] disappears. _
In America, they haven't used it for years.
_ [C] _
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian, [F] the Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France, every [A] Frenchman [Gm] knows his language from A to Z.
[G] The French never care for what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it [Dm] properly.
[E] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] Arabians [Am] learn [Em] Arabian with the speed of [Ab] summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn it backwards, [C] which is absolutely frightening.
[F] If you [Gm] spoke proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C]
can't the [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
English learn [Dm] to speak?
[Ab] _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] By right she should be taken out and [D] hung _ [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue. _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ Heavens, what a noise.
_ _ This is what the British [D] population _ _ _
[Db] _ calls an elementary _ [B] education.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ Hear them down in Soho Square, dropping H's everywhere, speaking English any [C] way they like.
_ [Db] You, sir, [Gm] did you go to [Abm] school?
What did you [C] take me [G] for, a fool?
No one [F] taught him taking, some tyke.
_ _ Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a Cornishman.
[Bb] _ I'd rather hear a choir.
[Eb] _
_ [E] _ [Eb] _ [C] She begins [G] cackling in her [Bb] barn, just like this one.
[G] _ [D] Gah!
_ _ Gah.
[G] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
_ _ [C] It's ow and gah [Db] that keep her in [C] her place, _ _ _ _ not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
_ _ [F] Why can't [C] the English teach their children how to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class distinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, it's there on the way you do.
[Db] [F] Why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
_ _ [E] An Englishman's way [F] of [Em] speaking absolutely [Ab] classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
If he [Bb] speaks proper English, you're regarded [Gm] as a freak.
[F]
Why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn [C] to [G]
set a good [D] example to people whose English is painful to your ears?
_ [Cm] [Em] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
_ [E] There [D] even are [Bm] places where English completely [E] disappears. _
In America, they haven't used it for years.
_ [C] _
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian, [F] the Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France, every [A] Frenchman [Gm] knows his language from A to Z.
[G] The French never care for what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it [Dm] properly.
[E] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] Arabians [Am] learn [Em] Arabian with the speed of [Ab] summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn it backwards, [C] which is absolutely frightening.
[F] If you [Gm] spoke proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C]
can't the [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
English learn [Dm] to speak?
[Ab] _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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