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Easy Street


Soundtrack: Annie

Easy Street Song Lyrics


[ROOSTER]
I remember the way
Our sainted mother
Would sit and croon us
Her lullaby

[MISS HANNIGAN]
She'd say, kids, there's a place
That's like no other
You got to get there before you die

[ROOSTER]
You don't get there
By playing from the rule book

[MISS HANNIGAN]
You stack the aces

[ROOSTER]
You load the dice

[MISS HANNIGAN AND ROOSTER]
Mother dear
Oh, we know you're down there listening --
How can we follow
Your sweet
Advice
To

[ROOSTER]
Easy street
Easy street
Where you sleep till noon

[MISS HANNIGAN]
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[ROOSTER AND MISS HANNIGAN]
She'd repeat
Easy street
Better get there soon.

[ROOSTER, MISS HANNIGAN, AND LILY]
Easy street
Easy street
Where the rich folks play
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Move them feet

[MISS HANNIGAN]
Move them ever-lovin' feet

[ROOSTER, MISS HANNIGAN, AND LILY]
To easy street

[MISS HANNIGAN]
Easy street

[ROOSTER, MISS HANNIGAN, AND LILY]
When you get there stay

[ROOSTER]
It ain't fair
How we scrounge
For three of four bucks
While she gets
Warbucks

[MISS HANNIGAN]
The little brat!
It ain't fair this here life
Is drivin' me nuts!
While we get peanuts
She's livin' fat!

[ROOSTER]
Maybe she holds the key
That little lady

[MISS HANNIGAN]
To gettin' more bucks

[ROOSTER]
Instead of less
Maybe we fix the game
With something shady

[LILY]
Where does that put us?

[MISS HANNIGAN]
Oh, tell her.

[ROOSTER]
Give ya one guess...

[ROOSTER, MISS HANNIGAN, AND LILY]
Yes!

Easy street
Easy street
Annie is the key
Yes sirree
Yes sirree
Yes sirree
Easy street
Easy street
That's where we're gonna --
Be!



May, 22nd 2024
"Easy Street," from the soundtrack of "Annie," stands as the ultimate, brightest example of the characters desiring a life like that painted on the canvas of the theater—a life with ease, grace, and no association with the poorness opposed to their hard times at that very moment. Performed by the characters Rooster, Miss Hannigan, and Lily, the song longs for leaving the hard life behind for "Easy Street," where people's lives are just better, richer, and more easy. The big metaphor in the excellent lyric "Easy Street" is the ultimate of "being rich" and of "lazing" - "you sleep till noon" and where "the rich folks play."

The characters continue to reflect on their "sainted mother's" advice in finding a place like no other where conventional rules won't put them, they say. Instead they say it means they have to stack the aces and load the dice, that they have to cheat and scheme their way into a much easier life. The song actually extends and develops these two characters into schemers and sets up their scheme involving Annie to a tee.

"Easy Street" has a way of encapsulating brilliantly the avarice and desperation running through their minds, being at the same time carried on a very peppy and catchy tune—very dark underpinnings of their intentions. It is that kind of a song that digs into the thoughts of people, keeps on repeating in their minds, and reminds them just how far a human can go, ready to pay any price to escape the troubles and get to the dreams, a vocation that might at the.

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