Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive

Gather 'round me, everybody

Gather 'round me while I preach some

I feel a sermon comin' on me

The topic will be sin

And that's what I'm against

If you wanna hear my story

Then settle back and just sit tight

While I start reviewing

The attitude of doing right

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive

And e-lim-i-nate the negative

And latch on to the affirmative

And don't mess with Mister In-Between

You got to spread joy up to the maximum

Bring gloom down to the minimum

Have faith, or pandemonium

Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate my last remark

Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark

What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?

Man, they said, we better

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive

And e-lim-i-nate the negative

And latch on to the affirmative

And don't mess with Mister In-Between

To illustrate my last remark

Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark

What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?

Man, they said, we better

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive

And e-lim-i-nate the negative

And latch on to the affirmative

And don't mess with Mister In-Between

No don't mess with mister In-Between

Baby, don't mess with Mister In-Between