It Ain't Necessarily So

SERENA
Remember children, at the end of the day, like the Bible say, you reap just what you sow.

SPORTING LIFE
You reap just what you sow.

SERENA
That's right.

SPORTING LIFE
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.

CHORUS
Won't you tell us more?

SPORTING LIFE
Now, little David was small but oh my!

SPORTING LIFE AND CHORUS
Little David was small but oh my!

SPORTING LIFE
He fought big Goliath
Who lay down and dieth
It ain't necessarily so.

SPORTING LIFE AND CHORUS
Wadoo-Zim bam boodle-oo
Hoodle ah da wa da - Scatty wah.

SPORTING LIFE
Oh Yeah!
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so.

Dey tell all your chillun
De debble's a villun
But it ain't necessarily so.

To get into Hebben
Don' snap for a sebben!
Live clean
Don' have no fault.

(Eh, What about you, boss?)

Oh, I takes dat gospel
Whenever it's pos'ble
But wid a grain of salt.

CHORUS
Wid a grain of...

SPORTING LIFE
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale.

SPORTING LIFE AND CHORUS
Jonah, he lived in de whale.

SPORTING LIFE
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale
Fo' he made his home in
Dat fish's abdomen
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale.

SPORTING LIFE AND CHORUS
Wadoo-Zim bam boodle-oo
Hoodle ah da wa da - Scatty wah.

SPORTING LIFE
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years.

SPORTING LIFE AND CHORUS
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years.

SPORTING LIFE
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?

CHORUS
Nine hundred years

SPORTING LIFE
I'm preachin' dis sermon to show
It ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't nessa.

SPORTING LIFE AND CHORUS
Ain't necessarily so.