Certainly too bad General Waverly couldn't have been here for this little Yuletide clambake, but...

8 seconds sound clip from the White Christmas (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:05:03 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- That sergeant will be a private in the morning.

- Yes. Isn't he lucky?

- I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I used to know, where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow.

- I'm dreaming of a white Christmas with every Christmas card I write.

- May your days be merry and bright and may all your Christmases be white.

- Well, that just about wraps it up, fellas.

- Certainly too bad General Waverly couldn't have been here for this little Yuletide clambake, but...

- 'Cause we really had a slam-bang finish cooked up for him.

- I guess you know by now that he's being replaced by a new commanding general fresh out of the Pentagon.

- That's not a very nice Christmas present, is it, for a division like us that's moving up?

- The old man's moving toward the rear. That's a direction he's never taken in his entire life.

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