Chords for Why Can't the English (Jeremy Irons and Audrey Hepburn)
Tempo:
142.8 bpm
Chords used:
C
F
G
Db
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Dm] Look at her, a [G] prisoner of the gutters,
[D] condemned by every syllable [Eb] she [G] utters.
By right she should be taken out and [D] hung [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the [C] English tongue.
[B] [G] Heavens, what a noise.
[E] 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, [G] did you go to school?
[Db] What are you typing for, [B] a fool?
No one taught him [C] taking [F] some type.
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a [Bb] Cornishman,
[Eb] [E] [Eb]
[C] she begins [G] cackling in a barn, [Gm] just like this one.
[Ab] Gah!
[D]
Gah!
[Db] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
[C] It's ow and [Db] garn that keep her in her [C] place,
not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
[F] Why can't the [C] English teach their children how [Em] to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class extinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, instead of the way you do,
[Db] [F] why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
[E] An Englishman's [F] way of [Em] speaking [Ab] absolutely classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
Speak [Bb] proper English, [Gm] you're regarded as [Bbm] a freak.
[F] Well, why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn?
Set a good [D]
example to people whose English is painful to your ears.
[Cm] [Db] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
[E] There even are places where [B] English completely [E] disappears.
In America, they haven't used it for years.
[C] [F] Why can't the English [C] 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] [Em] [Am] Arabians learn [Em] Arabian with the speed [Ab] of summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn [C] it backwards, which is absolutely [F] frightening.
[Gm] Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C] [F] [E]
[Db] [G] [C] can't the English learn [F] how to speak?
[Ab] [F] [G]
[D] condemned by every syllable [Eb] she [G] utters.
By right she should be taken out and [D] hung [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the [C] English tongue.
[B] [G] Heavens, what a noise.
[E] 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, [G] did you go to school?
[Db] What are you typing for, [B] a fool?
No one taught him [C] taking [F] some type.
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a [Bb] Cornishman,
[Eb] [E] [Eb]
[C] she begins [G] cackling in a barn, [Gm] just like this one.
[Ab] Gah!
[D]
Gah!
[Db] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
[C] It's ow and [Db] garn that keep her in her [C] place,
not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
[F] Why can't the [C] English teach their children how [Em] to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class extinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, instead of the way you do,
[Db] [F] why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
[E] An Englishman's [F] way of [Em] speaking [Ab] absolutely classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
Speak [Bb] proper English, [Gm] you're regarded as [Bbm] a freak.
[F] Well, why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn?
Set a good [D]
example to people whose English is painful to your ears.
[Cm] [Db] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
[E] There even are places where [B] English completely [E] disappears.
In America, they haven't used it for years.
[C] [F] Why can't the English [C] 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] [Em] [Am] Arabians learn [Em] Arabian with the speed [Ab] of summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn [C] it backwards, which is absolutely [F] frightening.
[Gm] Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C] [F] [E]
[Db] [G] [C] can't the English learn [F] how to speak?
[Ab] [F] [G]
Key:
C
F
G
Db
E
C
F
G
[Dm] _ Look at her, a [G] prisoner of the gutters, _ _
[D] condemned by every syllable [Eb] she [G] utters.
By right she should be taken out and [D] hung _ [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the [C] English tongue. _
[B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Heavens, what a noise.
_ _ [E] 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, [G] did you go to school?
[Db] What are you typing for, [B] a fool?
No one taught him [C] taking [F] some type. _
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a [Bb] Cornishman, _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [E] _ [Eb]
[C] she begins [G] cackling in a barn, [Gm] just like this one.
[Ab] Gah!
_ [D] _ _
Gah!
_ [Db] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
_ _ [C] It's ow and [Db] garn that keep her in her [C] place, _ _ _ _
not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
_ _ [F] Why can't the [C] English teach their children how [Em] to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class extinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, instead of the way you do,
[Db] [F] why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
_ [E] An Englishman's [F] way of [Em] speaking [Ab] absolutely classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
Speak [Bb] proper English, [Gm] you're regarded as [Bbm] a freak.
[F] Well, why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn?
_ Set a good [D]
example to people whose English is painful to your ears.
_ [Cm] [Db] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
_ [E] There even are places where [B] English completely [E] disappears.
_ In America, they haven't used it for years.
[C] _ _ [F] Why can't the English [C] 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] _ [Em] _ [Am] Arabians learn [Em] Arabian with the speed [Ab] of summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn [C] it backwards, which is absolutely [F] frightening.
_ [Gm] Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [E] _
[Db] _ [G] _ [C] can't the English _ learn [F] how to speak?
[Ab] _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] condemned by every syllable [Eb] she [G] utters.
By right she should be taken out and [D] hung _ [G] for the cold-blooded murder of the [C] English tongue. _
[B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Heavens, what a noise.
_ _ [E] 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, [G] did you go to school?
[Db] What are you typing for, [B] a fool?
No one taught him [C] taking [F] some type. _
Hear a Yorkshireman or worse, hear [A] a [Bb] Cornishman, _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [E] _ [Eb]
[C] she begins [G] cackling in a barn, [Gm] just like this one.
[Ab] Gah!
_ [D] _ _
Gah!
_ [Db] I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
_ _ [C] It's ow and [Db] garn that keep her in her [C] place, _ _ _ _
not her wretched [Db] clothes [C] and dirty face.
_ _ [F] Why can't the [C] English teach their children how [Em] to speak?
[F] This [C] verbal class extinction [F] by now should be antique.
If you spoke Ishida, [Gm] sir, instead of the way you do,
[Db] [F] why, you might [C] be selling [F] flowers too.
_ [E] An Englishman's [F] way of [Em] speaking [Ab] absolutely classifies him.
[G] The moment he speaks, he makes some [C] other Englishman despise [F] him.
Speak [Bb] proper English, [Gm] you're regarded as [Bbm] a freak.
[F] Well, why [C] can't the [Gm] English learn?
_ Set a good [D]
example to people whose English is painful to your ears.
_ [Cm] [Db] The Scots and the Irish need you [D] close to tears.
_ [E] There even are places where [B] English completely [E] disappears.
_ In America, they haven't used it for years.
[C] _ _ [F] Why can't the English [C] 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] _ [Em] _ [Am] Arabians learn [Em] Arabian with the speed [Ab] of summer lightning.
[G] The Hebrews learn [C] it backwards, which is absolutely [F] frightening.
_ [Gm] Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak.
[F] Oh, why [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [E] _
[Db] _ [G] _ [C] can't the English _ learn [F] how to speak?
[Ab] _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _