![English Is Cuh-ray-zee - Pete Seeger, Friends](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284758843773925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 22.09.2003
Record label: AppleSeed
Song language: English
English Is Cuh-ray-zee |
English is the most widely spoken language in the history of the planet |
One out of every seven human beings can speak or read it |
Half the world’s books, ¾ of the international mail are in English |
It has the largest vocabulary, perhaps two million words |
And a noble body of literature. |
But face it: |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
Just a few examples: There’s no egg in eggplant, no pine or apple in pineapple |
Quicksand works slowly; |
boxing rings are square |
A writer writes, but do fingers fing? |
Hammers don’t ham, grocers don’t groce. |
Haberdashers don’t haberdash |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? |
It’s one goose, two geese. |
Why not one moose, two meese? |
If it’s one index, two indices; |
why not one Kleenex, two Kleenices? |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
You can comb through the annals of history, but not just one annal |
You can make amends, but not just one amend |
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, |
is it an odd or an end? |
If the teacher taught, why isn’t it true that a preacher praught? |
If you wrote a letter, did you also bote your tongue? |
And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
Why is it that night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls? |
In what other language do people drive on the parkway and park on the driveway? |
Ship by truck but send cargo by ship? |
Recite at a play but play at a recital? |
Have noses that run and feet that smell? |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same |
When a wise man and a wise guy are very different? |
To overlook something and to oversee something are very different |
But quite a lot and quite a few are the same |
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next? |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
You have to marvel at the lunacy of a language in which your house can burn down |
While it is burning up. |
You fill out a form by filling it in |
In which your alarm clock goes off by going on |
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress? |
Well, English was invented by people, not computers |
And reflects the creativity of the human race |
So that’s why when the stars are out, they’re visible |
But when the lights are out, they’re invisible |
When I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up this rap |
I end it. |
English is cuh-ray-zee! |
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