Taxman (Remastered 2009)

"If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet"

The above line today, would be by Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand.

"If you are a farmer and own a cow, I'll tax that bovine's gassy pow."

I know it's bad, can anybody come up with something better?

Great album and album cover illustration.
My favorite two from that album has always been
#1..”Here, There & Everywhere”. Excellent structure and harmonies!
#2.. “Eleanor Rigby” Great storytelling, incredible orchestration from George Martin. Love that angry cello!
It’s a song fueled by melody, not volume or pitch. Paul didn’t have to raise his voice to a yell even once.

“Taxman” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group’s lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the Treasury. The song was selected as the album’s opening track and contributed to Harrison’s emergence as a songwriter beside the dominant Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was the group’s first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.

The Beatles began recording “Taxman” in April 1966, a month after Wilson’s landslide win in the 1966 general election. Coinciding with the song’s creation, Harrison learned that the band members’ tax obligations were likely to lead to their bankruptcy, and he was outspoken in his opposition to the government using their income to help fund the manufacture of military weapons. Drawing on 1960s soul/R&B musical influences, the song portrays the taxman as relentless in his pursuit of revenue and name-checks Wilson and Ted Heath, the leader of the Conservative Party. The recording includes an Indian-influenced guitar solo performed by Paul McCartney.

Agreed. It gets overlooked because it is sandwiched between Rubber Soul
and Sgt. Pepper's. Not a bad song on the album, though I have always been
partial to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' because it's just different and you
rarely hear it on the radio. Fun fact: McCartney plays the solo on 'Taxman'
and not lead guitarist Harrison on his song. Always found that interesting...

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