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A new tab added today, Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care Of Business". In a 1999 interview, Randy Bachman gave an account of how BTO's signature song came to be:It was written in an instant but it took 10 years for that instant to happen. What happened was, way back in the late 60's, when The Beatles had "Paperback Writer" out, I wrote a song just like it. Mine was called ""White Collar Worker", but the lyrics went "They get up in the morning from the alarm clock's warning, take the eight fifteen into the city." I'd been to New York and Chicago with the early Guess Who and seen people on commuting trains and how they had to catch this eight fifteen into the city 'cause they started working at nine thirty or ten. So I wrote about that. But when I got to my hook, my hook was "White Collar Worker" just like "Paperback Writer". I played it for the band and they said this is a joke. We can't record this. It's a copy of "Paperback Writer". So this song got put back into the filing cabinet of my mind...
Fast forward about 5 or 6 years and I'm out of The Guess Who. I've now started B.T.O. and we have our first album out. We come back from our first big tour of the States and we're playing a club in Canada for a week... In the middle of this Saturday night set, Fred Turner lost his voice and came to me and said "you have to sing the last set." Well, I was only a relief singer up to that point. So I went to sing this last set... I'm doing basically all non-singing songs that you could kind of talk your way through. The crowd is yelling "Rock 'n Roll."
Going to the club that night, there was a d.j. that said, "We're takin' care of business on C-Fox Radio." I thought "Takin Care of Business" is a great song title, put it in the back of my mind, and then onstage that night, out of desperation I turned around and said to the other guys in the band, "Play these 3 chords over and over, C, B flat, and F endlessly and when I get to the hook, help me out. It's "Takin' Care of Business". Just sing it with me. So I start to play the song and I sing my lyrics from "White Collar Worker" exactly as they appear in "Takin' Care of Business". When I get to the hook, instead of doing this breakdown where we all do "White Collar Worker" in high voices, I say "Takin' Care of Business" and the music keeps going. It was just put together like that. The crowd sensed that we were jamming and making it up. They were all clapping and screaming. When the song was over they kept clapping and stomping and singing "Takin' Care of Business." So we then picked the song up and sang it for another minute or so.
(Interview by Gary James at classicbands.com)
The tab: https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/bto-takincareofbusiness.txt
Whew, this tab was a workout. Enjoy. I need a rest. 
Updated: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:37 AM EDT
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