It's The Hard-Knock Life - Annie

[ORPHANS]
It's a hard-knock life for us! 
It's a hard-knock life for us! 

[ANNIE]
'Stead of treated, 
[ORPHANS]
We get tricked! 

[ANNIE]
'Stead of kisses, 

[ORPHANS]
We get kicked! 

[ALL]
It's a hard-knock life! 
Got no folks to speak of, so, 
It's the hard-knock row we hoe

[ANNIE]
Cotton blankets (2 beats)

[ORPHANS]
'Stead a wool

[ANNIE]
Empty Bellies (2 beats)

[ORPHANS]
'Stead a full! 

[ALL]
It's a hard-knock life! 

[ANNIE]
Don't it feel like the wind is always howl'n?

[KATE AND TESSIE]
Don't it seem like there's never any light! 

[ANNIE and MOLLY]
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?

[PEPPER, JULY]
It's easier than putting up a fight.

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

[ALL]
From the crying you would think this place's would 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 your in an orphanage! 
It's the hard knock life

[MOLLY]
(Making a whistling sound and imitating Miss Hannigan)
You're gonna scrub this dump till it shines
Like the top of the Chrysler building.

[ORPHANS (Except Molly)]
Yank the whiskers from her face
Jab her with a safety Pin
Make her drink a Mickey Finn
I love you Miss Hannigan
(Molly)
Get to work! 
Scrub the floors
I said get to work! 

[ALL]
It's the hard-knock life for her

It's the hard-knock life for her
No one cares for you a smidge
(Molly)

When your in an orphanage
It's a hard-knock life! 
It's a hard-knock life! 
It's a hard-knock life!