Gather round me everybody
Listen to me while I preach
I feel the sermon coming on
You gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister in between
You've gotta spread joy
up to the maximum
Bring boom down to the minimum
And have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the well, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark?
They said you gotta accentuate
the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative,
don't mess with Mr. Inbetween
You gotta spread joy up to the maximum,
bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith for pandemoniums
liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate my last remark,
Jonah hit the well, Noah hit the ark
What did they do,
just when everything looked so dark?
They said, you've got a accent,
you ate the positive
Eliminate the negative and
Let John do the affirmative
Don't mess with Mr. Impey
One more time you've gotta
Spread joy up to the maximum and
Bring love down to the minimum
Have faith, or pandemonium's
liable to walk upon the scene
You're not in the well, no,
you're in the ark
You're not in the well, no,
you're in the ark
You're not in the well, no, you're in the ark