Album: Annie: A New Musical

It's The Hard-Knock Life [Andrea McArdle]



Orphans:
It's the hard-knock life for us!
It's the hard-knock life for us!

Annie:
'Steada treated,

Orphans:
We get tricked!

Annie:
'Steada kisses,

Orphans:
We get kicked!

All:
It's the hard-knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so,
It's the hard-knock row we how!

Annie:
Cotton blankets,

Orphans:
'Steada of wool!

Annie:
Empty Bellies

Orphans:
'Steada of full!

All:
It's the hard-knock life!

Annie:
Don't if feel like the wind is always howln'?

Kate and Tessie:
Don't it seem like there's never any light!

Duffy and July:
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?

Molly and Pepper:
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 an' weepy!

All:
From all the cryin' you would think this place's a sink!
Oh!

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!

Molly:
(Making a whistling sound and imitating Miss. Hannigan)
You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the chrysler
building.

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

It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life!