You get up every morning from your alarm 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 and get your pay And if you ever get annoyed, look at me I'm self-employed I love to work at nothing all day And we'll be taking care of business everyday Taking care of business every way I've been taking care of business, it's alright 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 You 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 been taking care of business everyday Taking care of business every way We've been taking care of business, it's alright Taking care of business and working overtime, work out Taking care They get up every morning from your alarm 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 always look pretty And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine And start your slaving job and get your pay Well, 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 everyday Taking care of business every way I've been taking care of business, it's alright Taking care of business and working overtime, work out Takin' care of business, alright Takin' care of business Takin' care of business Takin' care of business, everyday Takin' care of business, ba-ba-baby Takin' care of business, it's all mine Takin' care of business And we'll be takin' care of business all night long There's business to be done