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 every day
Taking care of business every way
I've been taking care of business, it's all right
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've been taking care of business, it's all right
Taking care of business and working overtime, work out

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 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
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 right
Taking care of business and working overtime, work out...

Takin' care of business, all right
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business, every day
Takin' care of business, 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