It Ain't Necessarily So [Transliteration]

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.

Little David was small, but oh my!

Little David was small, but oh my!

He fought Big Goliath

Who laid down and died!

Little David was small, but oh my!

Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo,

Hoodle ah da wa da,

Scatty wah!

Oh yeah!

Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale,

Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale,

For he made his home in

That fish's abdomen.

Oh Jonah, he 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 said, from that stream.

Wadoo...

Well, it ain't necessarily so

Well, it ain't necessarily so

They tell all you(r) children

The devil's a villain,

But it 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 calls that living

When no girl will give in

To a man who is nine hundred years?

I'm preaching this sermon to show,

It ain't nece-ain't nece

Ain't nece-ain't nece

Ain't necessarily... so!

• Artist:George Gershwin
• Album:Porgy & Bess