Accentuate the Positive

Lyrics

Gather 'round me everybody Gather 'round me while I preach some There's a sermon comin' on me The subject will be sin And that's what I'm again If you want to hear my story Then settle back and just sit tight While I start reviewing The attitude of doing right You've got to accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Mister In-Between You've got to spread joy up to the maximum Bring gloom down to the minimum And have faith or pandemonium's 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 gotta accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative And latch on to the affirmative" But don't you mess with Mister In-between Don't mess with Mister In-between Leave him alone He's gone, he's gone 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 accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative And latch on to the affirmative" Don't you mess with Mister In-between No, don't mess with Mister In-between No, don't mess with Mister In-between Don't you mess with Mister In-between Leave him alone