It's the hard knock life for us!
It's the hard knock life for us!
'Stead a treated we get tricked,
'Stead a kisses we get kicked!

It's the hard knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so!
It's the hard knock row we hoe.
Cotten blankets, '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 want to throw the towel in?
Well It's easier than puttin' up a fight.

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 and weepy,
from the cryin' you would think this place would sink.
Oh!

Empty-Belly Life!
Rotten, Smelly Life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

Santa Clause we never see.
Santa Clause whats that, who's he?
No one cares for you a smidge,
when your in an orphanidge!

It's the hard knock life.
(Yes it is)
It's the hard knock life.
(Yes it is)
It's the hard knock life.