 US cassette single

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Singer Jacky Cheung recorded a Cantonese version of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" entitled "偷閒加油站" in 1993.The Notorious B.I.G.humorously refers to the song in the song "Gimme the Loot", from his 1994 album "Ready to Die", indicating that if a potential robbery victim tried to resist his efforts, the victim's bereaved mother would be left singing "It's so haaaard."