It's the Hard-Knock Life

It's the hard-knock life for us

It's the hard-knock life for us

'Stead of treated

We get tricked

'Stead of kisses

We get kicked

It's the hard-knock life

Got no folks to speak of, so

It's the hard-knock row we ho

Cotton blanket

'Stead of wool

Empty bellies

'Stead of full

It's the 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 throw the towel in?

It's easier than putting up a fight

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

From the crying, you would think this place would sink

Oh

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

You'll stay up till this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building

Kill, kill

Yank the whiskers from her chin

Little pig droppings

Jab her with a safety pin

Rotten orphans

Make her drink a Mickey Finn

Nobody loves you

I love you, Miss Hannigan

Get to work

Strip them beds

Scrub that floor

Polish my shoes

And I mean, start now

It's the hard-knock life for us

Mud in your eye

It's the hard-knock life for us

Egg in your beer

No one cares for you a smidge

Hair on your chest

When you're in an orphanage

It's the hard-knock life

It's the hard-knock life

It's the hard-knock life

It's the hard-knock life