Annie: A New Musical soundtrack – It's a Hard-Knock Life, For Us lyrics

It's a hard-knock life, for us,
It's a hard knock life, for us!

'Steada treated,
We get tricked!
'Steada kisses,
We get kicked!
It's a hard-knock life!

Got no folks to speak, of so,
It's the hard-knock row we hoe!

Cotton blankets,
'Steada wool!
Empty bellies,
'Steada full!
It's a hard-knock life!

Don't it feel like the wind is always howlin'?
Don't it seem like there's never any light?
Once a day don't you wanna through the towel in?
It's easier than puttin' up a fight.

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 'n' weepy,
From the cryin' you would think this place'd sink!
Ohhhhh!!

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

"Santa Claus" we never see,
"Santa Claus" what's that? Who's he?

No one cares for YOU, a smidge,
When you're in an orphanage!
It's a hard knock life!

(Spoken)
You'll stay up 'till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building!

Yank the whiskers from her chin!
Jab her with a safety pin!
Make her drink a Mickey Fin!

(Spoken)
I love you, Miss Hannigan!

(Spoken)
Get to work!
Strip them beds!
I said get to work!

It's a hard-knock life, for us,
It's a hard knock life, for us!

(Molly)
Merry Christmas!

No one cares for YOU, a smidge,
When you're in an orphanage!

(Molly)
Merry Christmas!

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

It's the hard-knock life!!