It Aint Necessarily So — текст песни (Ella Fitzgerald)

Sportin life:

It aint necessarily so,



All:

It aint necessarily so.



Sportin life:

De tings dat yo lible

To read in de Bible -

It aint necessarily so.



Lil david was small, but oh my!



All:

Lil david was small, but oh my!



Sportin life:

He fought big goliath

Who lay down and dieth -

Lil 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 fishs abdomen -

Oh jonah, he lived in de whale.



Lil moses was found in a stream



All:

Lil moses was found in a stream



Sportin life:

He floated on water

till ole pharaohs 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 aint necessarily so



All:

It aint necessarily so



Sportin life:

Dey tell all you chillun

De debbles a villun

But taint necessarily so.



To get into hebbben

Dont snap fo a sebben -

Live clean! don have no fault!

Oh, I takes dat gospel

Whenever its posple -



But wid a grain of salt!



Methuslah lived nine hundred years,



All:

Methuslah lived nine hundred years,



Sportin life:

But who calls dat livin

When no galll give in

To no man whats nine hundred years?



Im preachin dis sermon to show

It aint nessa, aint nessa,

Aint nessa, aint nessa -



All:

It aint necessarily so!