It's The Hard-Knock Life

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Now, for this one's shenanigans
 You'll get down on your knobby, little knees
 And you'll clean this dump
 'Til it shines like the top of the Chrysler Building!
 Yes, Miss Hannigan!
 Get to work!
 Why any kid would wanna be an orphan, I'll never know
 It's the hard-knock life, for us!
 It's the hard-knock life, for us!
 'Steada treated
 We get tricked!
 'Steada 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
 Cotton blankets
 'Steada wool!
 Empty Bellies
 'Steada 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 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 crying you would think this place would sink!
 Ohhhh!
 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 the hard-knock life!
 You'll stay up, 'til this dump shines like the top of the Chrysler Building!
 Yank the whiskers from her chin!
 Jab her with a safety pin!
 Make her drink a Mickey Finn!
 I love you Miss Hannigan
 Get to work!
 Now!
 Strip them beds!
 I said...
 Get to work!
 It's the hard-knock life, for us (Merry Christmas!)
 It's the hard-knock life, for us (It's medicine!)
 No one cares for you a smidge (It's lots of medicine!)
 When you're 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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Duration
03:04
Key
11
Tempo
142 BPM

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