It Ain't Necessarily So Lyrics - Ella Fitzgerald

Sportin' Life: 

It ain't necessarily so, 

All: 

It ain't necessarily so. 

Sportin' Life: 

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! 

All: 

Li'l' David was small, but oh my! 

Sportin' Life: 

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He fought Big Goliath 

Who lay down and dieth - 

Li'l' David was small, but oh my! 

Wadoo! 

Ensemble: 

Wadoo! 

Sportin' Life: 

Zim bam boddle-oo! 

Ensemble: 

Zim bam boddle-oo! 

Sportin' Life: 

Hoodle ah da waah da! 

Ensemble: 

Hoodle ah da waah da! 

Sportin' Life: 

Scatty way! 

Ensemble: 

Scatty wah! 

Sportin' Life: 

Yeah! 

Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale 

All: 

Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale. 

Sportin' Life: 

Fo' he made his home in 

Dat fish's abdomen - 

Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale. 

L'il' Moses was found in a stream 

All: 

L'il' Moses was found in a stream 

Sportin' Life: 

He floated on water 

'Till Ole' Pharaoh's daughter 

She fished him, she says from dat stream. 

Wadoo! 

Ensemble: 

Wadoo! 

Sportin' Life: 

Zim bam boddle-oo! 

Ensemble: 

Zim bam boddle-oo! 

Sportin' Life: 

Hoodle ah da waah da! 

Ensemble: 

Hoodle ah da waah da! 

Sportin' Life: 

Scatty way! 

Ensemble: 

Scatty wah! 

Sportin' Life: 

Yeah! 

It ain't necessarily so 

All: 

It ain't necessarily so 

Sportin' Life: 

Dey tell all you chillun 

De Debble's a villun 

But 'tain't necessarily so. 

To get into Hebbben 

Don't snap fo' a sebben - 

Live clean! Don' have no fault! 

Oh, I takes dat gospel 

Whenever it's pos'ple - 

But wid a grain of salt! 

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years, 

All: 

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years, 

Sportin' Life: 

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, 

Ain't nessa, ain't nessa - 

All: 

It ain't necessarily so!