Cash McCall

Lyrics

Yeah.
Nineteen-sixty.
The boardroom's got a new kinda king.

Name on the door just says McCall.
First name's Cash, says it all.
Got a leather briefcase, full of other people's numbers.
Got a tailored suit, cut so sharp it puts the board to sleep, puts 'em under.
Heard about a plastics company, Austen Enterprises.
Little family thing, full of surprises.
He walks in, quiet.
Doesn't start a riot.
Just smiles that James Garner smile.
Gonna own the place in a little while.

They call him the raider, the vulture, the shark.
But he's got that Hollywood leading-man spark.
He'll buy you out and sell you for parts,
then turn around and steal your hearts.
It's just business, baby, don't take it wrong.
The name's Cash McCall, and this is his song.

Then he sees the daughter, name of Lory.
Whole different chapter to the story.
She looks at him, he looks right back.
Suddenly the balance sheet is thrown off track.
He's buying her future, her father's whole life.
Cutting through the tension with a silver knife.
He ain't the villain Cameron Hawley wrote.
He's the hero the studio wants to promote.
Cool, tough, and personable.
Makes a hostile takeover reversible.

They call him the raider, the vulture, the shark.
But he's got that Hollywood leading-man spark.
He'll buy you out and sell you for parts,
then turn around and steal your hearts.
It's just business, baby, don't take it wrong.
The name's Cash McCall, and this is his song.

The New York Times called him a "paragon of sweet reasonableness."
Yeah, right.
They took a predator and gave him a love light.
Turned a cold and rapacious will
into a guy who just wants a thrill...
and the girl...
and the company...
and the world.
January twenty-seventh, nineteen-sixty.
The day the wolf learned to look pretty.

They call him the raider, the vulture, the shark.
But he's got that Hollywood leading-man spark.
He'll buy you out and sell you for parts,
then turn around and steal your hearts.
It's just business, baby, don't take it wrong.
The name's Cash McCall, and this is his song.

Yeah. Cash McCall.
He gets it all.
The contracts, the credit, the final curtain call.
Cash.
McCall.