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Gather 'round me, everybody
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Gather 'round me, while I preach some
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Feel a sermon coming on here
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The topic will be sin
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And that's what I'm agin'
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If you wanna hear my story
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Then settle back and just sit tight
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While I start reviewing
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The attitude of doing right
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You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
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E-lim-i-nate the negative
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And latch on to the affirmative
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Don't mess with mister inbetween
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You got to spread joy up to the maximum
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Bring gloom down to the minimum
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And have faith, or pandemonium
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Liable to walk upon the scene
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To illustrate my last remark
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Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark,
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What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?
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Man, they said, we better
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Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
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E-lim-i-nate the negative
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And latch on to the affirmative
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Don't mess with mister inbetween
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Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
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| Harold Arlen |
