IRVING BERLIN lyrics - I Paid My Income Tax Today

[Verse:]

I said to my Uncle Sam

Old Man Taxes, here I am

And he

Was glad to see me

Mister Small Fry, yes, indeed

Lower brackets, that's my speed

But he

Was glad to see me



[1st refrain:]

I paid my income tax today

I never felt so proud before

To be right there with the millions more

Who paid their income tax today

I'm squared up with the U. S.A.

See those bombers in the sky?

Rockefeller helped to build 'em, so did I

I paid my income tax today



[2nd refrain:]

I paid my income tax today

A thousand planes to bomb Berlin

They'll all be paid for and I chipped in

That certainly makes me feel okay

Ten thousand more and that ain't hay

We must pay for this war somehow

Uncle Sam was worried but he isn't now

I paid my income tax today



[3rd REFRAIN with coda:]

I paid my income tax today

I never cared what Congress spent

But now I'll watch over ev'ry cent

Examine ev'ry bill they pay

They'll have to let me have my say

I wrote the Treasury to go slow

Careful, Mister Henry Junior, that's my dough

I paid my income tax

Now you've got all the facts

I know you'll pay your taxes too