作曲：Charles Strouse

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 if feel like the wind is always howling

Don't it seem like there's never any lights

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 cries 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 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 till 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

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