Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Bing Crosby/The Andrews Sisters/Vic Schoen & His Orchestra

Written by：Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer

You got to accentuate to at 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 his 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 do not mess with Mister in between

Do you hear me hm

Oh listen to me chil'ren and a you will hear

About the eliminatin' of the negative and the accent on

The positive

And gather 'Round me chil'ren if you're willin' and sit

Tight

While I start reviewin' the attitude of doin' it 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 and than

Otherwise otherwise have faith or pandemonium

Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate well illustrate my last remark

To get the flow

Jonah in the whale noah in the ark

What did they say

What did they say say

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 do not mess with Mister in between