Gather 'round me, everybody
Listen to me while I preach
I feel a sermon coming on
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
Eliminate 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?
They said, you got to
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
Eliminate 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?
They said, you got to
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween
One more time
You got to spread joy up to the maximum
And bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
