From the 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess”. Words by Dubose Heyward. Music by George Gershwin.
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Wadoo, wadoo
Zim bam boddle-oo
Zim bam boddle-oo
Hoodle ah da wa da
Hoodle ah da wa da
Scatty wah, scatty wah, Yeah
Wadoo, wadoo
Zim bam boddle-oo
Zim bam boddle-oo
Hoodle ah da wa da
Hoodle ah da wa da
Scatty wah, scatty wah, Yeah
It ain’t necessarily so
It ain’t necessarily so
Dey tell all you chillun
De debble’s a villun
But ’tain’t necessarily so
To get into Hebben
Don’ snap for a sebben
Live clean! Don’ have no fault
Oh, I takes dat gospel
Whenever it’s pos’ble
But wid a grain of salt
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin’
When no gal’ll give in
To no man what’s nine hundred years?
I’m preachin’ dis sermon to show
It ain’t necca, ain’t nessa, ain’t nessa
Ain’t nessa, ain’t necessarily so