It Ain't Necessarily So

Aretha Franklin · Take A Look: Complete On Columbia [2011]

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



Now little David was small

But oh my

Yes David was small

But oh my

He fought big Goliath

Who lay

Lay down and dieth

Yes David was small

But oh my



Have you ever hear about Jonah?

He lived in a whale

You ever heard about Jonah?

He lived

Lived in a whale

And he laid his home

In that fish's abdomen

Yes Jonah he lived in a whale



To get into Heaven

Don't snap for a seven

Live clean

And don't have no fault

And take me

Oh I takes dat gospel

Whenever it's pos'ble

But with a little grain of salt



Methus'lah lived

Nine hundred years

Methus'lah lived life

Nine hundred years

But tell me who

Who calls that livin'

When no gal's given

To no man

What's nine hundred years

That's why I say

That it ain't

It ain't necessarily

It ain't

No

Necessarily

It ain't

It ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily so

Ain't necessarily

Ain't necessarily

Ain't necessarily

Ain't necessarily

Ain't necessarily so