The city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama decided to get together and offered me a fine job.

7 seconds sound clip from the Forrest Gump (1994) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:41:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday.

- I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it.

- And that's all I have to say about that. (2)

- Didn't you say you were waiting for the number seven bus?

- There'll be another one along shortly.

- Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity, and a shrimping boat captain, and a college graduate...

- The city fathers of Greenbow, Alabama decided to get together and offered me a fine job.

- So, I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money.

- He got me invested in some kind of fruit company.

- And so then, I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more, and I said, That's good. One less thing.

- Now, Mama said there's only so much fortune a man really needs, and the rest is just for showing off.

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