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It Ain’t Necessarily So Lyrics by Larry Marshall (Actor)

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

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[SPORTIN' LIFE]
It ain't necessarily so
[ENSEMBLE]
It ain't necessarily so
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so
Little David was small, but oh my
[ENSEMBLE]
Little David was small, but oh my
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
He fought big Goliath
Who lay down and dieth
Little David was small, but oh my
Oh, wadoo
[ENSEMBLE]
Wadoo
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Oh, zim bam boodle-oo
[ENSEMBLE]
Zim bam boodle-oo
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Hoodle ah da wa da
[ENSEMBLE]
Hoodle ah da wa da
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Scatty wah
[ENSEMBLE]
Scatty wah
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Yeah!
Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
For he made his home in
That fish's abdomen
Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale
Little Moses was found in a stream
[ENSEMBLE]
Little Moses was found in a stream
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
That child floated on water
'Til old Pharaoh's daughter
Fished him, she says, from that stream
Oh, wadoo
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, wadoo
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Oh, zim bam boodle-oo
[ENSEMBLE]
Zim bam boodle-oo
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Hoodle ah da wa da
[ENSEMBLE]
Hoodle ah da wa da
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Scatty wah
[ENSEMBLE]
Scatty wah
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, it ain't necessarily so
[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, it ain't necessarily so
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
They tells all you 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
Look at me
Now, I takes that gospel
Whenever it's possible
But with a grain of salt
Methuselah lived nine hundred years
[ENSEMBLE]
Methuselah lived nine hundred years
[SPORTIN' LIFE]
Say, but who calls that livin'
When no gal will give in
To no man what's nine hundred years?
And I'm preaching this sermon to show
It ain't nessa, 'tain't nessa
'Tain't nessa, 'tain't nessa
[SPORTIN' LIFE & ENSEMBLE]
'Tain't necessarily so!
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Larry Marshall (Actor)

Larry Marshall (Actor)

About “It Ain’t Necessarily So” by Larry Marshall (Actor)

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