Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
Gather 'round me, everybodyGather 'round me, while I preach someFeel a sermon coming on hereThe topic will be sinAnd that's what I'm agin'If you wanna hear my storyThen settle back and just sit tightWhile I start reviewingThe attitude of doing right
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon't mess with mister inbetween
You got to spread joy up to the maximumBring gloom down to the minimumAnd have faith, or pandemoniumLiable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate my last remarkJonah 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 positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmativeDon't mess with mister inbetween