It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so The things that you liable to read in the Bible You know David was small but, oh my Little David was small but, oh my He fought Big Goliath who just lay down and died Little David might have been small but, oh my Now Jonah, he lived in the whale Old Jonah, he lived in the whale Now he made his home in that fish's abdomen Jonah resided in the whale But it ain't necessarily so, no, it ain't necessarily so They tell all your children that the devil, he's a villain Methuselah lived nine hundred years Methuselah lived nine hundred years And who calls that living when no girls gonna give in to no man What's nine hundred years? It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so The things that you liable to read in the Bible It ain't necessarily so, no, it ain't necessarily so