Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Lucky Dube
Canonical path: /lucky-dube/taxman
Related lyric paths: 6
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Taxman
Read Taxman lyrics by Lucky Dube on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Taxman
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I pay my gardener
To clean up my garden
I pay my doctor
To check out da other ting
I pay my lawyer
To fight for my rights
And I pay my bodyguard
To guard my body
There' s only one man I pay
But I don' t know what I' m paying for
I' m talking about the taxman x3
Chorus: (x4)
What have you done for me lately
Mr taxman
You take from the rich
Take from the poor
You even take from me
Can' t understand it now
I pay for the police
To err..I don' t know why
'Cause if my dollar was good enough
There wouldn' t be so much crime
In the streets
They tell me you' re a fat man
And you always take and
Never give
Chorus till fade
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Lucky Dube performs "Taxman", and this lyric page sits inside the Lucky Dube catalog on LyroVerse.
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