Gershwin - IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO

“IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO”
From Porgy and Bess (1935)
LYRICS BY IRA GERSHWIN
(Music by George Gershwin)
  1  It ain't necessarily so. (A)  It ain't necessarily so  (A)
  2  The t'ings dat yo' li'ble  (B)
  3  To read in de Bible,  (B)
  4  It ain't necessarily so.  (A)
  5  Li'l David was small, but oh my !  (C)
  6  Li'l David was small, but oh my !  (C)
  7  He fought Big Goliath  (D)
  8  Who lay down an' dieth !  (D)
  9  Li'l David was small, but oh my !  (C)
10  Wadoo, (repeat phrase)
11  Zim bam boddle-oo,  (repeat phrase)
12  Hoodle ah da wa da,  (repeat phrase)
13  Scatty wah ! (repeat phrase)  Oh yeah !...
14  Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale,  (E) 
15  Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale,  (E)
16  Fo' he made his home in  (F)
17  Dat fish's abdomen.  (F)
18  Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale.  (E)
19  Li'l Moses was found in a stream.  (F)
20  Li'l Moses was found in a stream.  (F)
21  He floated on water (G)
22  Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter,  (G)
23  She fished him, she said, from dat stream.  (F)
24  Wadoo (repeat phrase)   
25  Well, it ain't necessarily so (A)
26  Well, it ain't necessarily so (A)
27  Dey tells all you chillun (G)
28  De debble's a villun, (G)
29  But it ain't necessarily so!  (A)
30  To get into Hebben (H)
31  Don' snap for a sebben ! (H)
32  Live clean ! Don' have no fault ! (I)
33  Oh, I takes dat gospel (J)
34  Whenever it's pos'ble, (J)
35  But wid a grain of salt. (I)
36  Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,  (K)
37  Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,  (K)
38  But who calls dat livin'  (L)
39  When no gal will give in  (L)
40  To no man what's nine hundred years ?  (K)
41  I'm preachin' dis sermon to show,  (A)
42  It ain't nessa (M) (repeat 3 times) ain't necessarily so ! (A)