Johnny Mercer - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive

Lyrics by J.Mercer; music by H.Arlen. Gather ’round me, everybody Gather ’round me, while I preach some Feel a sermon coming on here The topic will be sin And that’s what I’m agin’ 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 E-lim-i-nate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with mister inbetween You got to spread joy up to the maximum Bring gloom down to the minimum And 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 E-lim-i-nate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with mister in between