"Hard Knock Life" lyrics - ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES

It's the Hard-Knock Life

[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 role, we know!

[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 howl'n?

[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...of 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!
Ohhhh!!!!!!!
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!
Its the hard-knock life!

[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
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!