{"id":29638,"date":"2026-01-17T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=29638"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:00:32","slug":"takin-care-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/takin-care-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Takin Care of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
Takin' Care of Business chords\r\nBachman-Turner Overdrive  1974 (BTO)\r\n \r\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takin%27_Care_of_Business_(song)\r\n \r\nC<\/span> Bb<\/span> F<\/span>  5x *\r\n \r\n    C<\/span>            C7<\/span>\r\nYou get up every morning,\r\n           Bb<\/span>\r\nfrom your alarm clock's warning,\r\n         F<\/span>             C<\/span>\r\ntake the 8:15 into the city\r\n                      C7<\/span>\r\nThere's a whistle up above,\r\n           Bb<\/span>              F<\/span>\r\nand people pushing, people shoving,\r\n        C<\/span>         F<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nand the girls who try to look pretty\r\n \r\n                       C7<\/span>\r\nAnd if your train's on time,\r\n\r\n        Bb<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\nyou can get to work by nine,\r\n                       Bb<\/span>              C<\/span>\r\nand start your slaving job to get your pay\r\n                C7<\/span>\r\nIf you ever get annoyed,\r\n        Bb<\/span>            F<\/span>\r\nlook at me I'm self-employed,\r\n  C<\/span>               F<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nI love to work at nothing all day\r\n \r\n \r\nAnd I'll be...\r\nC<\/span>                        Bb<\/span>\r\nTaking care of business, every day\r\nC<\/span>                        Bb<\/span>\r\nTaking care of business, every way\r\n          C<\/span>                        Bb<\/span>\r\nI've been taking care of business, it's all mine,\r\nC<\/span>                            Bb<\/span>\r\ntaking care of business, and working overtime\r\n \r\nWork out!\r\n \r\nC Bb F\r\n \r\n           C       C7\r\nIf it were easy as fishing,\r\n          Bb       F\r\nyou could be a musician,\r\n             Bb                  C\r\nif you could make sounds loud or mellow\r\n                     C7\r\nGet a second-hand guitar,\r\n            Bb        F\r\nchances are you'll go far,\r\n       C               F              C\r\nif you get in with the right bunch of fellows\r\n \r\n                      C7\r\nPeople see you having fun,\r\n       Bb           F\r\njust a-lying in the sun,\r\n                   Bb           C\r\ntell them that you like it this way\r\n                       C7\r\nIt's the work that we avoid,\r\n          Bb       F\r\nand we're all self-employed,\r\n   C               F           C\r\nwe love to work at nothing all day\r\n \r\n \r\nAnd we be...\r\nC                        Bb\r\nTaking care of business, every day\r\nC                        Bb\r\nTaking care of business, every way\r\n           C                        Bb\r\nWe've been taking care of business, it's all mine,\r\nC                            Bb\r\ntaking care of business, and working overtime\r\n \r\nC Bb F\r\n \r\n(Spoken) Take good care of my business\r\n \r\nC Bb  4x\r\n \r\nWhen I'm away, every day whoo!\r\n \r\n    C            C7\r\nYou get up every morning,\r\n           Bb\r\nfrom your alarm clock's warning,\r\n         F             C\r\ntake the 8:15 into the city\r\n                      C7\r\nThere's a whistle up above,\r\n           Bb              F\r\nand people pushing, people shoving,\r\n        C         F           C\r\nand the girls who try to look pretty\r\n \r\n                       C7\r\nAnd if your train's on time,\r\n        Bb             F\r\nyou can get to work by nine,\r\n                       Bb              C\r\nand start your slaving job to get your pay\r\n                C7\r\nIf you ever get annoyed,\r\n        Bb            F\r\nlook at me I'm self-employed,\r\n  C               F           C\r\nI love to work at nothing all day\r\n \r\n \r\nAnd I ll be\r\nC                        Bb\r\nTaking care of business, every day\r\nC                        Bb\r\nTaking care of business, every way\r\n          C                        Bb\r\nI've been taking care of business, it's all mine,\r\nC                           Bb\r\ntaking care of business and working overtime\r\n \r\nC\r\nTaking care of business  4x\r\n \r\nC                       Bb\r\nTaking care of business every day\r\nC                       Bb\r\nTaking care of business every way\r\n          C                        Bb\r\nI've been taking care of business, it's all mine,\r\nC                           Bb\r\ntaking care of business and working overtime  2x\r\n \r\n* Alternate:\r\n \r\nCapo III\r\n \r\nC  = A\r\nC7 = A7\r\nBb = G\r\nF  = D\r\n \r\nSet8\r\n
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Takin’ Care of Business chords Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1974 (BTO) https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takin%27_Care_of_Business_(song) C Bb F 5x * C C7 You get up every morning, Bb from your alarm clock’s warning, F C take the 8:15 into the city C7 There’s a whistle up above, Bb F and people pushing, people shoving, C … CLICK TO VIEW SONGTakin Care of Business<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29639,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29638\/revisions\/29639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}