Ella Fitzgerald - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive Lyrics

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 again

If you wanna 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
Latch on to the affirmative
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

Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister in between
No, 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

Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister in between
No, don't mess with mister in between