Annie (мюзикл)
Текст песни 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 row we hoe!

[Annie:]
Cotton blankets,

[Orphans:]
'Steada of wool!

[Annie:]
Empty bellies

[Orphans:]
'Steada of full!

[All:]
It's the hard knock life!

[Annie:]
Don't it feel like the wind is always howlin'?

[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 or 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!
It's the hard knock life!

[Molly (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

[Molly:]
Little pig droppings!

[Orphans:]
Jab her with a safety pin

[Molly:]
Rotten orphans!

[Orphans:]
Make her drink a Mickey Finn

[Molly:]
Nobody loves me!

[Orphans:]
I love you, Miss Hannigan!

[Molly:]
Get to work!
Strip them beds!
Scrub that floor!
Polish my shoes!
And I mean start now!

[All:]
It's the hard knock life for us
It's the hard knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage
It's the hard knock life
It's the hard knock life
It's the hard knock life!

* - OST Annie (musical) (саундтрек к мюзиклу «Annie»)