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Get up! I feel like being a Tax Machine

inspired by James Brown’s Get up! (I feel like being a Sex Machine)

Brothas’, I’m ready to get up and do my thing (yeah go ahead!)
I wanta get into it, man, you know (go ahead!)
Like a, like a tax machine, man, (yeah go ahead!)
Spendin’ and takin’ it, you know
Can I count it off? (Go ahead)

One, two, three, Billion!

Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)
Pay on the scene, (pay on up), like a tax machine, (pay on up)

Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)
Pay on the scene, (pay on up), like a tax machine, (pay on up)

Get up, (give it up)
Pay on the scene, (pay on up) like a tax machine, (pay on up)

Wait a minute!
Twist your arm, then use your form
Pay on the scene the big tax machine
You got to pay yo’ taxes sure as you’re born
Get it together, pay on, pay on.

Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)

Hah!

Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up))
Get up, (give it up)

You said, you said you got the,
You said the bailout,
You said the bailout you got to get
It gives me the fever ‘n’ a cold sweat.
The way they like it is, the way it is
They tax mine, (dig it!), and not his

Get up, (give it up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a tax machine, (get on up)
Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)

Bobby! Are they gonna fix the bridge?
(Go Ahead!)
Are they gonna fix the bridge?
(Take em to the bridge!)
Should I take ’em to the bridge?
(Yeah!)
Are they gonna fix the bridge?
(Go Ahead!)
Tax me now!

Come on!

Stay on the scene, like a tax machine!
The way they take it is, is the way it is
They tax mine, (dig it!), forget about his

Stay on the scene, like a taxin’ machine
Stay on the scene, like a taxin’ machine
Stay on the scene

I wanna count it off one more time now
(Go ahead!)
You wanna hear it like it did on the top fellas?
(Yeah!)
Hear it like it did on the top?
(Yeah!)
Hit it now!

Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)

Get up, (give it up)
Get on up, (get on up)

Stay on the scene, (give it up), like a taxin’ machine, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)

beer, (pay on up)
cigarettes’, (pay on up)

coke, (pay on up)
water, (pay on up)

Get up, (give it up)
Get up, (give it up)

Stay on the scene, (give it up)

like a tax machine, (give it up)

You gotta pay yo’ taxes, (give it up)
Sure as you’re born, (give it up)

Get it together, Tax on, tax on
tax on, tax on, (right on, right on)
tax on, tax on, (right on, right on)
tax on, tax on, (right on, right on)

Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)

And then, shake your piggy bank loose,
Shake your piggy bank loose,

Shake your piggy bank loose,
Shake your piggy bank loose,
Shake your piggy bank loose,
Shake your piggy bank loose,

Shake your piggy bank loose,

Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)

Huh!

Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)

Can we hit it like we did one more time, from the top
Can we hit like that one more time
(One more time!)
One more time!
Let’s file it and quit! (Go ahead!)
Can we file it and quit? (Yeah!)
Can we file it and quit? (Yeah!)
Can we file it and quit? (Yeah!)
Hit it!

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