Track Title:               Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive

Album Title:               Harold Arlen Songbook, disc 13
Prime Artist:              Ella Fitzgerald
Arranger:                  Billy May
Lyrics by:                 Johnny Mercer

Music by:                  Harold Arlen     (b. Hyman Arluck)
Producer:                  Norman Granz
Orchestra:                 Billy May
From the Film:             Here Come The Waves  1944 (M)


Lyrics:
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
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