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It’s the Hard Knock Life Lyrics by Lilla Crawford

Annie (The New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording)

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[MS. HANNIGAN, spoken]
Now you get down on your knobby little knees
And clean this dump
Until it shines like the top of the Chrysler building
Why any kid would wanna be an orphan...
I’ll never know
[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
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?
[PEPPER]
It's easier than puttin' up a fight
[ANNIE]
No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy
[JULY]
No one cares if you grow or if you shrink
[MOLLY]
No one dries when your eyes get wet and weepy
[ALL]
From 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!
It's the hard-knocklife
[MOLLY, spoken]
(Imitating Miss. Hannigan)
You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler
Building
[ANNIE & ORPHANS]
Yank the whiskers from her chin
Jab her with a safety pin
Make her drink a Mickey Finn
I love you, Miss Hannigan
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
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Lilla Crawford

Lilla Crawford

About “It’s the Hard Knock Life” by Lilla Crawford

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"It’s the Hard Knock Life" appears on "Annie (The New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording)".

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