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It Ain't Necessarily So
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Ella Fitzgerald
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[Sportin' Life]
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It ain't necessarily so,
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[All]
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It ain't necessarily so.
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[Sportin' Life:]
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De t'ings dat yo li'ble
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To read in de Bible -
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It ain't necessarily so.
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Lil' David was small, but oh my!
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[All]
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Lil' David was small, but oh my!
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Sportin' Life:
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He fought Big Goliath
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Who lay down and dieth -
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Lil' David was small, but oh my!
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Wadoo!
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[Ensemble]
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Wadoo!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Zim bam boddle-oo!
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[Ensemble]
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Zim bam boddle-oo!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Hoodle ah da waah da!
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[Ensemble]
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Hoodle ah da waah da!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Scatty way!
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[Ensemble]
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Scatty wah!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Yeah!
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Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale
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[All]
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Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale.
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[Sportin' Life]
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Fo' he made his home in
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Dat fish's abdomen -
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Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale.
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Lil' Moses was found in a stream
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[All]
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Lil' Moses was found in a stream
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[Sportin' Life]
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He floated on water
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'Til Ole' Pharaoh's daughter
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She fished him, she says from dat stream.
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Wadoo!
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[Ensemble]
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Wadoo!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Zim bam boddle-oo!
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[Ensemble]
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Zim bam boddle-oo!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Hoodle ah da waah da!
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[Ensemble]
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Hoodle ah da waah da!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Scatty way!
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[Ensemble]
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Scatty wah!
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[Sportin' Life]
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Yeah!
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It ain't necessarily so
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[All]
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It ain't necessarily so
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[Sportin' Life]
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Dey tell all you chillun
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De Debble's a villun
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But 'tain't necessarily so.
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To get into Hebbben
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Don't snap fo' a sebben -
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Live clean! Don' have no fault!
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Oh, I takes dat gospel
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Whenever it's pos'ple -
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But wid a grain of salt!
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Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,
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[All]
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Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,
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[Sportin' Life]
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But who calls dat livin'
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When no gal'll give in
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To no man what's nine hundred years?
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I'm preachin' dis sermon to show
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It ain't nessa, ain't nessa,
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Ain't nessa, ain't nessa -
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[All]
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It ain't necessarily so!
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