Lyrics: Johnny Mercer
Music: Johnny Mercer
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 agin'
If you wanna hear my story
Then settle back and just sit tight
While I start reviewing
The attitude of doing right
You got to ac cent tchu ate the positive
E lim I nate the negative
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
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
Ac cent tchu ate the positive
E lim I nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween
No don't mess with mister inbetween
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
You got to ac cent tchu ate the positive
E lim I nate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween
No don't mess with mister inbetween