Standard English Songtext
von The Stiffs

Model yourself on a
BBC newsreader
I think you think you are
Morally superior

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah

We don′t speak correctly
Our accents are phoney
Our voices let us down
Because they do not sound

Like Standard English
Standardised English
Like Standard English
Standardised English


Standard English, we don't speak English
If we don′t put on airs and graces

I think you think we are
Morally inferior
Our meanings are oblique
Because we do not speak

A Standard English
Standardised English
Like Standard English
Standardised English

Since language is a form
Of communication
And since we do succeed
Then we need not conform

To Standard English
Standardised English
Like Standard English
Standardised English


Standard English, we don't speak English
If we don't put on airs and graces