It's the Hard Knock Life Lyrics

ORPHANS
It's a hard-knock life for us
It's a hard-knock life for us

ANNIE
'Steada treated

ORPHANS
We get tricked

ANNIE
'Steada kisses

ORPHANS
We get kicked

ALL
It's a hard-knock life

ALL
Got no folks to speak of so
It's a hard-knock row we hoe

ANNIE
Cotton blankets

ORPHANS
'Steada of wool

ANNIE
Empty bellies

ORPHANS
'Steada of full

ALL
It's a hard-knock life

ANNIE
Don't it feel like the wind is always howlin'?

KATE
Don't it seem like there's never any light?

DUFFY
Once a day don't you wanna throw the towel in?

ORPHANS
It's easier than puttin' up a fight

ANNIE
No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy
No one cares if you grow or if you shrink
No one dries when your eyes get wet and weepy

ALL
From the cryin' you would think this place's a sink! Oh!

ALL
Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

MOLLY
Santa Claus we never see

ANNIE
Santa Claus?
What's that? Who's he?

ALL
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage!
It's the hard-knock life

MOLLY (SPOKEN)
(Making a whistling sound and imitating Miss Hannigan)
You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building!

ANNIE AND ORPHANS
Yank the whiskers from her chin
Jab her with a safety pin
Make her drink a Mickey Finn
I love you, Miss Hannigan

ALL
It's a hard-knock life for us
It's a hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage

ALL
It's a hard-knock life
It's a hard-knock life
It's a hard-knock life