Verse 1:
D
You get up every morning
C
From your ‘larm clock’s warning
G D7
Take the 8:15 into the city
D
There’s a whistle up above
C
And people pushin’, people shovin’
G D
And the girls who try to look pretty
D
And if your train’s on time
C
You can get to work by nine
G D7
And start your slaving job to get your pay
D
If you ever get annoyed
C
Look at me I’m self-employed
G D7
I love to work at nothing all day
And I’ll be
Chorus:
D C
Taking care of business (every day)
G D7
Taking care of business (every way)
D C
I’ve been taking care of business (it’s all mine)
G D7
Taking care of business and working overtime
Work out
Verse 2:
D
If it were easy as fishin’
C
You could be a musician
G D7
If you could make sounds loud or mellow
D
Get a second-hand guitar
C
Chances are you’ll go far
G D7
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows
D
People see you having fun
C
Just a-lying in the sun
G D7
Tell them that you like it this way
D
It’s the work that we avoid
C
And we’re all self-employed
G D7
We love to work at nothing all day
And we be
Chorus:
D C
Taking care of business (every day)
G D7
Taking care of business (every way)
D C
I’ve been taking care of business (it’s all mine)
G D7
Taking care of business and working overtime
Mercy
Whooooo
All right
D C G D7
D G F C
Take good care of my business
When I’m away, every day
Whoooo
D C G D7
Verse 3:
D
You get up every morning
C
From your ‘larm clock’s warning
G D7
Take the 8:15 into the city
D
There’s a whistle up above
C
And people pushin’, people shovin’
G D
And the girls who try to look pretty
D
And if your train’s on time
C
You can get to work by nine
G D7
And start your slaving job to get your pay
D
If you ever get annoyed
C
Look at me I’m self-employed
G D7
I love to work at nothing all day
And I’ll be
Chorus:
D C
Taking care of business (every day)
G D7
Taking care of business (every way)
D C
I’ve been taking c are of business (it’s all mine)
G D7
Taking care of business and working overtime
[Drums Only]
Chorus:
Takin’ care of business, whoo
Takin’ care of business
Takin’ care of business
Takin’ care of business
D C
Takin’ care of business (every day)
G D7
Takin’ care of business (every way)
D C
Takin’ care of business (it’s all mine)
G
Takin’ care of business
D7
And working overtime
Whoooo
D C
Takin’ care of business
G D7
Takin’ care of business
D C
Takin’ care of business
G D7
We be Takin’ care of business
D C
We be Takin’ care of business
G D7
Takin’ care of business
D
Takin’ care of business…
