It's The Hard Knock Life

Level 2

It's the hard knock life for us! It's the hard knock life for us!

'Stead of treat - ed we get tricked, 'Stead of kiss - es we get kicked,

it's the hard knock life! Got no folks to speak of so, It's the hard - knock

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row, we hoe. Cot- ton blank - ets, 'stead of wool, emp - ty bel- lies, 'stead of full,
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it's the hard knock life. Don't it feel like the wind is al- ways

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howling Don't it seem like there's nev - er any light? Once a

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day don't you wan- na throw the towel in? It's eas - i - er than put - tin' up a fight. No- one's

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there when your dreams at night get creep - y, No one cares if you grow or if you shrink. No one

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dries when your eyes get wet and weep - y. From the cry - in' you would think this place would
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sink. Oh! San- ta Claus we nev er see, San- ta Claus what's that? Who's he?

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No - one cares for you a smidge, when you're in an

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orph an - idge, it's the hard knock life!