Little Girls

"One Jump Ahead" is a song sung by Miss Hannigan (singing voice of Teri Hatcher) in Little Oprhan Annie. It is sung as she thinks about the little girls she had put up with. The music and lyrics were written by Mark Mancina and Martin Charnin.

A few minutes later, the song is reprised as Miss Hannigan contemplates that she was robbed by her own brother, but soon forgets about it, and then complained about the girls.

Lyrics
Original version= Miss Agatha Hannigan: Little girls Little girls

Everywhere I turn I can see them Little girls Little girls Night and day I eat, sleep and breathe them

I'm an ordinary woman With feelings I'd like a man to nibble on my ear But I'll admit No man has bit So how come I'm the mother of the year?

How I hate Little shoes Little socks And each little bloomer I'd have cracked Years ago If it weren't for my Sense of humor

Some women are dripping with diamonds Some women are dripping with pearls ''Lucky me! Lucky me!'' Look at what I'm dripping with Little girls

Little cheeks Little teeth Everything around me is little If I wring Little necks Surely I will get an acquittal

Some day I'll step on their freckles Some night I'll straighten their curls Send a flood Send the flu Anything that You can do To little girls Miss Agatha Hannigan: I have been robbed by Rooster! I think I should forget about the whole thing, he is my brother, after all. Still, for the girls... Some day I'll land in the nut house With all the nuts and the squirrels There I'll stay Tucked away 'Til the prohibition of Little girls
 * -|Reprise=