"Takin' Care Of Business" lyrics

[Musical Intro]



You get up every morning

From your 'larm clock's warning

Take the 8:15 into the city

There's a whistle up above

And people pushin', people shovin'

And the girls who try to look pretty

And if your train's on time

You can get to work by nine

And start your slaving job to get your pay

If you ever get annoyed

Look at me I'm self-employed

I love to work at nothing all day

And I'll be



Taking care of business (every day)

Taking care of business (every way)

I've been taking care of business (it's all mine)

Taking care of business and working overtime

Work out



If it were easy as fishin'

You could be a musician

If you could make sounds loud or mellow

Get a second-hand guitar

Chances are you'll go far

If you get in with the right bunch of fellows

People see you having fun

Just a-lying in the sun

Tell them that you like it this way

It's the work that we avoid

And we're all self-employed

We love to work at nothing all day

And we be



Taking care of business (every day)

Taking care of business (every way)

We be been taking care of business (it's all mine)

Taking care of business and working overtime



Mercy

Whooooo

All right



[Instrumental Interlude]



Take good care of my business

When I'm away, every day

Whoooo



You get up every morning

From your 'larm clock's warning

Take the 8:15 into the city

There's a whistle up above

And people pushin', people shovin'

And the girls who try to look pretty

And if your train's on time

You can get to work by nine

And start your slaving job to get your pay

If you ever get annoyed

Look at me I'm self-employed

I love to work at nothing all day

And I'll be



Taking care of business (every day)

Taking care of business (every way)

I've been taking care of business (it's all mine)

Taking care of business and working overtime



[Brief Instrumental Interlude]



Takin' care of business, whoo

Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business (every day)

Takin' care of business (every way)

Takin' care of business (it's all mine)

Takin' care of business

And working overtime

Whoooo

Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business

We be Takin' care of business

We be Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business

Takin' care of business



[Fades Out]







Writer(s): Randy Bachman



Randy Bachman got the idea for this song when he was a member of The Guess Who . He wanted to write about their recording technician, who needed to go to work everyday at 8:15 in the morning.

The title of this song was inspired by DJ Daryl B's catch phrase "We're takin' care of business". He was a DJ at a local station in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Randy Bachman heard the phrase on his way to a gig where "Takin' Care Of Business" would be performed for the first time live under its previous name "White Collar Worker".