(curtain rises and reveals three young women standing among clothing racks, music starts and the young blonde woman and the others start to work, some putting clothes on a rack, one of them mopping the blonde one shoves a peice of clothing onto a shelf and turns to face the audience)

Rose Tyler: It's the hard-knock life for us!

All: It's the hard-knock life for us!

Rose: 'steada treated

Shop workers: We get tricked!

Rose: 'steada bonuses,

shop workers: we get jipped!

All: It's the hard-knock life!
Got no dough to speak of, so,
It's the hard-knock row we hoe!

(Rose pulls out a blanket)

Rose: Cotton Blankets

(she throws it onto a shelf that stands nearby)

shopworkers: next ta wool!

Rose: empty shelves

shopworkers: we make full!

All: It's the hard-knock life!

Rose(dropping more blankets on the shelf): Don't it feel like the wind is always howl'n?

Shopworkers: Don't it seem like there's never any light!

All(they all pick up towels from the shelves and toss them into a basket, that sits center stage): Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?

Shopworkers: It's easier than puttin' up a fight.

Rose: no one's there when when the customers get cranky!
No one cares if you're healthy or your sick
no one knows when your eyes get wet and weepy!

All: without us I'm sure this place would sink!
Ohhhh!
annoying boss's life!
Rotten smelling life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

shop girl 1: full paychecks we never see

Rose(joking): full paychecks? what's that?
a dream?

All: No one cares for you a smidge
When you stock shelves to live!
It's the hard knock life!

(Rose pulls the mop out of the bucket and starts to mop the floor around her, one of the shop girls climbs up on a chair, and points at Rose and the other shop girl)

Shop girl 2: You'll stay till this dump shines
like the top of the Chrysler Building.

Rose and shop girl 1(running forward shop girl 1 pulling her playfully down from the chair, and Rose teases her with the mop): Yank the whiskers from his chin
Jab him with a safety Pin
Make him drink a mickey finn
whatever you say, sir!

Shop girl 2:Get to work!
fold them sheets!
I said get to work!

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 stock shelves to live!
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life!

(music fades and Rose leans heavily on the mop handle, the other girls behind her put things on shelves and racks)

PA system: cleanup on Aisle three

(Rose sighs picks up the mop bucket and walks off stage)