It Ain’t Necessarily So

Apologies to Ira Gershwin

Updated 2023

A Gutenberg Bible in the Harry Elkins Widener Reading Room, Harvard University. In 1961 I worked in this room as a ‘page turner’ for scholars.

It ain’t necessarily so,
It ain’t necessarily so,
The things that you’re liable
To read in the bible,
It ain’t necessarily so.

Some Christians insist all day long
That the Bible says gay sex is wrong
And the miserable faggot
As low as a maggot
Will be sent straight to hell before long!

The Bible condemns unto death:
Sunday Work, of which we’re bereft,
The non-virginous bride,
All hint of Gay Pride,
Mixed fibres, shell fish and bad breath.

All men in Sodom were gay
(At least that’s what Christians do say)
The men threatened to ravish
Two angels so raffish
And for that God made the town pay.

Dear God saved Lot and his wife
But when she looked back came God’s strife
Poor Lot’s wife was salted
But sin was not halted
Lot impregnated his girls, the low-life!