O tax-taker, sir (and madam, too)
I’m taxed to the hilt; what shall I do?
There’s income tax and sales tax, and levy on property,
fees from the electric company and from Xfinity.
I cannot make a move, I fear,
without encountering a tax that's there.

Chorus
Whate’er you make we soon will take.
This will be done in a lambful shake.
And if by chance you’re fundly blest,
when you expire we’ll get the rest.

My gross salary is quite impressive,
but FICA and FUTA are so oppressive.
Permit me to start using my own wage
to prepare myself for my old age.
Your rules may force me to save a bit,
but don’t tell me how to go about doing it.

Chorus
Whate’er you make we soon will take.
This will be done in a lambful shake.
And if by chance you’re fundly blest,
when you expire we’ll get the rest.