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It ain't necessarily so |
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It ain't necessarily so |
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The 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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Li'l David was small, but oh my ! |
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Li'l David was small, but oh my ! |
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He fought Big Goliath |
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Who lay down an' dieth ! |
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Li'l David was small, but oh my ! |
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Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo, |
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Hoodle ah da wa da, |
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Scatty wah ! |
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Oh yeah !... |
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Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale, |
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Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale, |
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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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Li'l Moses was found in a stream. |
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Li'l Moses was found in a stream. |
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He floated on water |
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Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter, |
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She fished him, she said, from dat stream. |
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Wadoo ... |
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Well, it ain't necessarily so |
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Well, it ain't necessarily so |
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Dey tells all you chillun |
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De debble's a villun, |
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But it ain't necessarily so ! |
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To get into Hebben |
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Don' snap for 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'ble, |
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But wid a grain of salt. |
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Methus'lah lived nine hundred years, |
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Methus'lah lived nine hundred years, |
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But who calls dat livin' |
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When no gal will 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 nece-ain't nece |
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Ain't nece-ain't nece |
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Ain't necessarily ... so ! |