[Verse 1]
Gather around me, everybody
Gather around me, while I preach some
Feel a sermon coming on here
The topic will be sin
And that's what I'm aging
If you want to hear my story
Then settle back and just sit tight
While I start reviewing
The attitude of doing right

[Chorus]
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 in between

[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]