Words: Neil Symes, 1990
Tune: It ain't necessarily so
Methuselah lived nine hundred years,
his groups rather less, it appears.
The ones he thought viable
were far too often liable
to die without even a ko.
No, it ain't necessarily ko,
it ain't necessarily ko.
The ones that he thought viable
were far too often liable
to die without even a ko.
He thought the J group was alive (or ko)
because it enclosed about five or so
But a hane and a placement
would cause that group's debasement
- it ain't necessarily ko.
No, it ain't necessarily ko,
it ain't necessarily ko.
A hane and a placement
cause that group's debasement.
It ain't necessarily ko.
He liked to invade underneath,
and live, by the skin of his teeth.
But what use in living
if the wall that you're giving
makes three score and ten points or so?
No, it ain't necessarily ko,
it ain't necessarily ko.
But what use in living
if the wall that you're giving
makes three score and ten points or so?
He liked to play onadare
because it leaves some ko aji,
but it only caused him trouble
because that ko is double!
It ain't necessarily ko.
No, it ain't necessarily ko,
it ain't necessarily ko.
But it only caused him trouble
because that ko is double!
It ain't necessarily ko.
He often made the carpenter's square:
"There's always two eyes, or a ko there."
But depending on the hanes
and even more the dames
it ain't necessarily ko!
No, it ain't necessarily ko,
it ain't necessarily ko.
But depending on the hanes
and even more the dames
it ain't necessarily ko!
He once reached the "Large L"-position,
for all his long life his ambition.
But it never reached completion
for the saddest of all reasons:
He died - it's a thousand yoear ko!
No, it ain't necessarily ko,
it ain't necessarily ko.
But it never reached completion
for the saddest of all reasons:
He died - it's a thousand yoear ko!