It Ain't Necessarily So - Chuck Berry, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong

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 the Goliath who lay down and dieth

Little David was small but oh, my

Yes, Jonah he lived in the whale

Oh, Jonah he lived in the whale

But he made his home in that fish’s abdomen

Ooh, Jonah he lived in the whale

Little Moses was found in the stream

Little Moses was found in the stream

He floated on water till old Pharoah’s daughter

She fished him she says from that stream

It ain’t necessarily so

It ain’t necessarily so

They tell all the children

The devil’s a villian

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’d take that gospel whenever it’s possible

But with a grain of salt

don’t live nine hundred years

don’t live nine hundred years

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

To no man, what’s nine hundred years?

Now I’m preachin' this sermon to

It ain’t necessarily, ain’t necessarily, ain’t necessarily so