It ain't necessarily so It ain't necessarily so The things that you're liable To read in the bible Ain't necessarily so Little David was small, but oh my David was small, but oh my He fought Goliath, who lie down and dieth David was small, but oh my Jonah, he lived in a whale Now Jonah, he lived in a whale Man made his home in that fish's abdomen Jonah, he lived in a whale Little Moses was found in a stream Little Moses was found in a stream He floated on water 'till ole Pharaoh's daughter She fished him, she said, from that stream Methuselah lived nine hundred years Methuselah lived nine hundred years Who calls that living when no gal will give in to no man What's nine hundred years It ain't necessarily so It ain't necessarily so The things that you're liable To read in the bible Ain't necessarily so