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
  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?
  Man, they said, we better
  
  Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
  E-lim-i-nate the negative
  And latch on to the affirmative
  Don't mess with mister inbetween