{"id":353,"date":"2012-10-29T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-10-29T17:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:25:45","slug":"monday-morning-musical-meme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/10\/29\/monday-morning-musical-meme-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning musical meme!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many performances of this glorious song to choose from, I copped out and went with the most recent one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It Ain&#039;t Necessarily So from Porgy and Bess\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kP5O_NUhrK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are the original lyrics by George Gershwin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It ain&#8217;t necessarily so<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t necessarily so<br \/>\nThe t&#8217;ings dat yo&#8217; li&#8217;ble<br \/>\nTo read in de Bible,<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t necessarily so.<\/p>\n<p>Li&#8217;l David was small, but oh my !<br \/>\nLi&#8217;l David was small, but oh my !<br \/>\nHe fought Big Goliath<br \/>\nWho lay down an&#8217; dieth !<br \/>\nLi&#8217;l David was small, but oh my !<\/p>\n<p>Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo,<br \/>\nHoodle ah da wa da,<br \/>\nScatty wah !<br \/>\nOh yeah !&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale,<br \/>\nOh Jonah, he lived in de whale,<br \/>\nFo&#8217; he made his home in<br \/>\nDat fish&#8217;s abdomen.<br \/>\nOh Jonah, he lived in de whale.<\/p>\n<p>Li&#8217;l Moses was found in a stream.<br \/>\nLi&#8217;l Moses was found in a stream.<br \/>\nHe floated on water<br \/>\nTill Ol&#8217; Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter,<br \/>\nShe fished him, she said, from dat stream.<\/p>\n<p>Wadoo &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it ain&#8217;t necessarily so<br \/>\nWell, it ain&#8217;t necessarily so<br \/>\nDey tells all you chillun<br \/>\nDe debble&#8217;s a villun,<br \/>\nBut it ain&#8217;t necessarily so !<\/p>\n<p>To get into Hebben<br \/>\nDon&#8217; snap for a sebben !<br \/>\nLive clean ! Don&#8217; have no fault !<br \/>\nOh, I takes dat gospel<br \/>\nWhenever it&#8217;s pos&#8217;ble,<br \/>\nBut wid a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Methus&#8217;lah lived nine hundred years,<br \/>\nMethus&#8217;lah lived nine hundred years,<br \/>\nBut who calls dat livin&#8217;<br \/>\nWhen no gal will give in<br \/>\nTo no man what&#8217;s nine hundred years ?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m preachin&#8217; dis sermon to show,<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t nece-ain&#8217;t nece<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t nece-ain&#8217;t nece<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t necessarily &#8230; so !<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s some right sound advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many performances of this glorious song to choose from, I copped out and went with the most recent one:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}