Ella Fitzgerald - It Ain't Necessarily So

It ain't necessarily so.

It ain't necessarily so.

The things that you're liable

to read in the Bible,

it ain't necessarily so.

David was small but, oh my.

David was small but, oh my,

he shot Goliath

who lay down and dieth.

Little David was small but, oh my.

Jonah, he lived in a whale.

Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale.

But he made his home in that fish's abdomen,

oh, Jonah lived in a whale.

Little Moses was found in a stream.

Little Moses was found in a stream.

He floated on water till old Pharaoh's daughter

she fished him, she says, from that stream.

It ain't necessarily so.

It ain't necessarily so.

They tell all your children

the devil he's a villain,

but 't'ain't necessarily so.

To get into heaven don't snap for a seven.

Live clean, don't have no fault.

Oh, I take that gospel, whenever it's possible,

but with a grain of salt.

Methuselah lived nine hundred years.

Methuselah lived nine hundred years.

But who called that livin' when no gal will give in

to no man, what's nine hundred years?

Now I'm preachin' this sermon to show

it ain't necessarily, ain't necessarily,

ain't necessarily so.

• Artist:Ella Fitzgerald