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Artist: Harry Belafonte
Canonical path: /harry-belafonte/it-ain-t-necessarily-so
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It Ain't Necessarily So
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It Ain't Necessarily So
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It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
De t'ings dat yo li'ble
To read in de Bible
It ain't necessarily so
Li'l' David was small, but oh my
Li'l' David was small but oh my
He fought big Goliath
Who lay down and dieth
Li'l' David was small, but oh my
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
Fo' he made his home in
Dat fish's abdomen
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
Li'l' Moses was found in a stream
Li'l' Moses was found in a stream
He floated on water
'Till Ole' Pharaoh's daughter
She fished him, she says from dat stream
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
Dey tell all you chillun
De Debble's a villum
But 't ain't necessarily so
To get into heaven
Don't snap fo' a sebben'
Live clean! Don't have no fault
Oh, I takes dat Gospel
Whenever it's pos'ble
But wid a grain of salt
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin'
When no gal'll give in
To no man what's nine hundred years
I'm preachin' dis sermon to show
It ain't nessa, ain't nessa
It ain't necessarily so!
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