The Company Way - Charles Nelson Reilly/Robert Morse.mp3

[00:03.01]TWIMBLE: When I joined this firm
[00:05.49]As a brash young man
[00:08.32]Well, I said to myself
[00:09.49]"Now, brash young man
[00:10.95]Don't get any ideas."
[00:13.80]Well, I stuck to that
[00:15.26]And I haven't had one in years
[00:18.74]FINCH, spoken: You play it safe.
[00:20.93]TWIMBLE: I play it the company way;
[00:24.93]Wherever the company puts me
[00:27.23]There I stay
[00:29.16]FINCH: But what is your point of view?
[00:30.94]TWIMBLE: I have no point of view
[00:33.37]FINCH: Supposing the company thinks
[00:35.61]TWIMBLE: I think so too
[00:37.89]FINCH, spoken: Now, what would you say...?
[00:39.14]TWIMBLE, spoken: I wouldn't say.
[00:41.31]FINCH: Your face is a company face
[00:45.33]TWIMBLE: It smiles at executives
[00:47.29]Then goes back in place
[00:49.62]FINCH: The company furniture?
[00:51.47]TWIMBLE: Oh, it suits me fine
[00:53.77]FINCH: The company letterhead is...?
[00:55.78]TWIMBLE: A valentine
[00:58.24]FINCH, spoken: Is there anything you're against?
[00:59.62]TWIMBLE, spoken: Unemployment.
[01:01.00]FINCH: When they want brilliant thinking
[01:03.85]From employees
[01:06.52]TWIMBLE: That is no concern of mine
[01:09.55]FINCH: Suppose a man of genius
[01:12.81]Makes suggestions?
[01:14.85]TWIMBLE: Watch that genius get suggested to resign
[01:18.56]FINCH: So you play it the company way?
[01:22.63]TWIMBLE: All company policy is by me OK
[01:26.89]FINCH: You'll never rise up to the top
[01:29.14]TWIMBLE: But there's one thing clear:
[01:31.31]Whoever the company fires
[01:33.61]I will still be here
[01:37.03]FINCH, spoken: You certainly found a home!
[01:38.88]TWIMBLE, spoken: It's cozy.
[01:40.11]FINCH: Your brain is a company brain
[01:44.03]TWIMBLE: The company washed it
[01:45.88]Now I can't complain
[01:48.50]FINCH: The company magazine!
[01:50.04]TWIMBLE: Boy, what style, what punch!
[01:52.60]FINCH: The company restaurant!
[01:54.56]TWIMBLE: Ev'ry day, same lunch
[01:57.30]Their haddock sandwich, it's delicious!
[01:59.99]FINCH, spoken: I must try it.
[02:01.40]TWIMBLE, spoken: Early in the week.
[02:03.93]FINCH: Do you have any hobbies?
[02:07.62]TWIMBLE: I've a hobby;
[02:09.76]I play gin with Mr. Bratt
[02:12.68]FINCH: Mr. Bratt! And do you play it nicely?
[02:16.26]TWIMBLE: Play it nicely...
[02:18.07]Still, he blitzes me in every game, like that!
[02:21.54]FINCH, spoken: Why?
[02:22.09]TWIMBLE: 'Cause I play it the company way
[02:26.43]Executive policy is by me OK
[02:30.55]FINCH: How can you get anywhere?
[02:32.62]TWIMBLE: Junior, have no fear;
[02:34.97]Whoever the company fires
[02:37.19]I will still be here
[02:39.80]FINCH: You will still be here
[02:41.84]TWIMBLE: Year after year after fiscal
[02:44.87]BOTH: Never take a risk-al year!
[02:50.69]BUD, spoken: Oh, me too, me too, Mr.Twimble. I know what you mean! From now on:
[02:58.01](sung) I'll play it the company way
[03:01.82]Wherever the company puts me
[03:04.09]There I'll stay
[03:06.34]COMPANY: Whatever the company tells him, that he'll do
[03:10.49]BUD: Whatever my uncle may think I think so, too
[03:14.80]COMPANY: Ohhhh he's beaming with company pride
[03:19.01]BUD: I've conquered that over-ambitious rat inside
[03:23.35]MR. TWIMBLE: Old Bud's no longer the Frump he used to be
[03:27.73]BUD: I've pledged to the company sweet conformity
[03:31.52]COMPANY: Hooray! Hooray!
[03:33.66]BUD: I will someday earn my medal
[03:37.92]25-year employee
[03:42.08]I'll see to it
[03:44.14]That the medal
[03:46.31]Is the only thing they'll ever pin on me
[03:50.07]COMPANY: The Frump way is the company way
[03:54.09]Executive policy is by him OK
[03:58.45]BUD: I'll never be President
[04:00.41]But there's one thing clear
[04:02.87]As long as my uncle can stand me
[04:05.19]I will still be here
[04:08.98]COMPANY: We know the company may like
[04:11.39]Or lump any man (BUD, spoken: I'm so proud!)
[04:13.27]And if they choose to
[04:14.81]The company may dump any man (BUD, spoken: And happy!)
[04:17.45]But they will never dump
[04:19.64]Frump, the company man
[04:21.89]Frump will play the company
[04:24.00]Frump will play the company
[04:26.07]Frump will play the company way
[04:29.72]Frump!