Gather 'round me, everybody Listen to me while I preach I feel a sermon coming on You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive Eliminate 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? They said, you got to Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive Eliminate 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? They said, you got to Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive Eliminate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with mister inbetween One more time You got to spread joy up to the maximum And bring gloom down to the minimum And have faith, or pandemonium Liable to walk upon the scene Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark