Maybe Bill Nye should have opened with this one.
Maybe we should sing this every time the clods from Westboro show up, at every GOP fundraiser, every teabagger event, ... the list goes on.
Play it, sing it, to drown out the noise of each bigot / racist / sexist / homophobe who twists any scripture or mythology to justify their hatred.
For anyone who wants to sing along with Mr. Cab Calloway (click here), one of those who portrayed Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess, the Gershwin lyrics are below:
It ain't necessarily so / It ain't necessarily so
The t'ings dat yo' li'ble / To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
Li'l David was small, but oh my ! / Li'l David was small, but oh my !
He fought Big Goliath / Who lay down an' dieth !
Li'l David was small, but oh my !
Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo, / Hoodle ah da wa da,
Scatty wah ! / Oh yeah !...
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale, / Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale,
Fo' he made his home in /Dat fish's abdomen.
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale.
Li'l Moses was found in a stream. / Li'l Moses was found in a stream.
He floated on water / Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter,
She fished him, she said, from dat stream.
Wadoo ...
Well, it ain't necessarily so / Well, it ain't necessarily so
Dey tells all you chillun / De debble's a villun,
But it ain'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 will give in
To no man what's nine hundred years ?
I'm preachin' dis sermon to show, / It ain't nece-ain't nece
Ain't nece-ain't nece / Ain't necessarily ... so !