Luyện nghe bài hát English is Cuh-ray-zee

English is the most widely spoken language in the of the planet.
One out of every human beings can speak or read it.
Half the books, 3/4 of the international mail are in English.
It has the vocabulary, perhaps two million words,
And a body of literature. But face it:
is cuh-ray-zee!

Just a few examples: no egg in eggplant, no pine or apple in pineapple.
works slowly; boxing rings are square.
A writer writes, but do fingers
Hammers don't ham, don't groce. Haberdashers don't haberdash.
is cuh-ray-zee!

If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the of booth be beeth?
It's one goose, two geese. Why not one moose, two
If it's one index, two why not one Kleenex, two Kleenices?
is cuh-ray-zee!

You can comb the annals of history, but not just one annal.
You can amends, but not just one amend.
If you 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 that a preacher praught?
If you wrote a letter, did you also bote tongue?
And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian
is cuh-ray-zee!

Why is it that night falls but breaks and day breaks but never falls?
In what 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 at a recital?
noses that run and feet that smell?
is cuh-ray-zee!

How can a chance and a fat chance be the same
When a wise man and a wise guy are different?
To overlook something and to something are very different,
But a lot and quite a few are the same.
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as the next?
is cuh-ray-zee!

You to marvel at the lunacy of a language in which your house can burn down
it is burning up. You fill out a form by filling it in.
In which your alarm goes off by going on.
If pro is the opposite of con, is the opposite of progress?

Well, was invented by people, not computers
And reflects the creativity of the race.
So why when the stars are out, they're visible,
But when the are out, they're invisible.
When I wind up my I start it, but when I wind up this rap,
I end it. is cuh-ray-zee!