The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94321   Message #1828277
Posted By: Grab
06-Sep-06 - 07:34 AM
Thread Name: The Whole Song?
Subject: RE: The Whole Song?
The one that's been annoying me for a bit is "It ain't necessarily so". Round our way, everyone seems to leave out the last verse. Up to that point, it just seems like a nice little comedy number making mild fun of the Bible, until you get that absolutely *classic* punchline of "You tell all your chillun, the Devil's a villain - well it ain't necessarily so" and you find who's singing it and why. Until you know that you're assuming the role of the Devil in singing it, you can't do it properly - without that, you're just mouthing the words.

Graham.