Johnny Mercer Accentuate The Positive Lyrics

Accentuate The Positive Lyrics

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

- Artist: Johnny Mercer as sung on
"Remember the 40's-Music Of the War Years
Vol. IV, 1941-45" CEMA Special
Markets (Capitol-EMI) CDL-57367
- peak Billboard position # 1 in 1945
-
competing versions charted by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
(#2),
Artie Shaw (#5), and Kay Kyser (#12)
- Words and Music by Harold
Arlen and Johnny Mercer




Gather
'round me, everybody
Gather 'round me while I'm preachin'
Feel a sermon
comin' on me
The topic will be sin and that's what I'm ag'in'
If you
wanna hear my story
The settle back and just sit tight
While I start
reviewin'
The attitude of doin' 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
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'd better accentuate the
positive")
("Eliminate the negative")
("And latch on to the
affirmative")
Don't mess with Mister In-Between (No!)
Don't mess with
Mister In-Between

(Ya got to spread joy up to the maximum) 
(Bring gloom down to the minimum) 
(Have faith or pandemonium's)
(Liable to walk
upon the scene)

You got to ac (yes, yes) -cent-tchu-ate the
positive
Eliminate (yes, yes) the negative
And latch (yes, yes) on to the
affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, don't mess with Mister
In-Between


Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were
transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not
necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music,
songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.