Why I'm Here (Explicit)

Why I'm Here - Mike/李红 RedLee

It is surely time that the speech

Of the black culture of America

Be recognized as a genuine dialect of english

It is in every sense of the word

And that's why I'm here

Merry Christmas to you all

And I'll see you next year

Hey now I'm better than I thought I was

You sure are Lenora that was great

Very proper english is it

If that's the proper spelling

Why is it so easy

Here Lenora try this

I then gave her a copy of the original

Standard english version of the poem

Uh uh what's that

'Twas'

What's that mean

It means it was go ahead Lenora

I'll help you if you have any trouble

T-Twas the the night before Christmas

And all through the house not a crea-crea

How come I'm gettin' so mixed up

Well it's a little different than the

One you first read

That should be creature

Oh I see creature was st-stirring

Not even a mouse

Lenora's problem with the regular version

Of the poem was that she could not

Cope with the unfamiliar grammar

The translated version used standard

English spellings so it was apparent

That sound spelling correspondences

Were not entirely the problem

'The moon on the on the roof

The from falling snow gave the

Gave the land of really thing to

Objects below

Good

I'm glad that's over

This unplanned experiment was duplicated

With other inner city children and always

With positive results it's suggested that