White Christmas
    Special Musical Excerpts from the movie

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The White Christmas soundtrack album contains studio versions of the songs.  In many cases, they sound nothing like what is in the movie, i.e. on the actual soundtrack.  This was disconcerting to me, as the real movie soundtrack was so familiar.  So I recorded the songs from the DVD so I can listen to the songs from the actual soundtrack.  Here they are.

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  1. Sisters
  2. Snow
  3. Count Your Blessings
  4. Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me
  5. Gee I Wish I Was Back In The Army
  6. White Christmas
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Selected Songs from White Christmas by Irving Berlin

As sung in the movie
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Sisters

Sisters . . sisters,
There were never such devoted sisters.
Never had to have a chaperone, "No sir".
I'm here to keep my eye on her.

Caring, sharing
Ev'ry little thing that we are wearing.
When a certain gentleman arrived from Rome,
She wore the dress and I stayed home.

All kinds of weather, we stick together,
The same in the rain or sun.
Two diff'rent faces, but in tight places,
We think and we act as one.
Uh huh.

Those who've seen us
Know that not a thing could come between us.
Many men have tried to split us up, but no one can
Lord help the mister
Who comes between me and my sister,
And Lord help the sister
Who comes between me and my man.

[Fade out]

[So, here’s the skinny on this song.  Because of her contract with Columbia Records, Rosemary Clooney’s voice couldn’t be included on the “White Christmas” album released by Decca Records.  So Decca recorded the songs with Peggy Lee substituting for Rosemary Clooney, who released her own “White Christmas” album, singing “Sisters” as a duet with her real sister, Betty Clooney. I don’t care for the jazzed-up version released on the “soundtrack” album, and I can tell that the Clooney Sisters version is different from what I remember.  (Trudy Stevens sang for Vera Ellen in the  movie and on the “soundtrack” album.)



 
 
 
 

Snow

[Bass, alto, unison]
Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow.
It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow – snow, snow.
I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow.
Snow, I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow.
Snow, oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow.
Snow, Where it's snowing
All winter through -
That's where I want to be.
Snowball throwing,
That's what I'll do.
How I'm longing to ski
Through the
Snow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Those glist'ning houses that seem to be built of snow
Snow, oh, to see a mountain covered with a quilt of snow.
What is Christmas with no snow?
No white Christmas with no (snow) Snow
Snow Snow
I'll soon be there with snow.
I'll wash my hair with snow.
And with a spade of snow
I'll build a man that's made of snow.
I'd love to stay up with you but I recommend a little shuteye
Go to sleep . . . And dream . . .
Of snow, snow, snow, snow, snow.



 
 
 

Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep

When I'm worried and I can't sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep,
And I fall asleep
Counting my blessings.

When my bankroll is getting small,
I think of when I had none at all,
And I fall asleep
Counting my blessings.

I think about a nursery,
And I picture curly heads,
And one by one I count them,
As they slumber in their beds.

If you're worried and you can't sleep,
Just count your blessings instead of sheep,
And you'll fall asleep
Counting your blessings.


White Christmas

 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.


How to Download These Songs

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