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Saturday Night With Mr. C

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1958

Accentuate The Positive

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Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative

Accentuate the positive, an' latch on



You gotta accentuate the positive

Eliminate the negative an' latch on to the affirmative

Don't mess with Mister In Between



You gotta spread joy up to the maximum

Bring gloom down to the minimum

An' have faith, amen, or pandemonium's

Liable to walk upon the scene, amen



To illustrate my last remark

Jonah in the whale, Noah in the arc

An' what did they do, what did they do?

Just when everything looked so dark?

What did they, what did they, what did they do?



Man, they said, "You better accentuate the positive

Eliminate the negative an' latch on

To the affirmative, don't mess with Mister In Between

No, don't you mess with Mister In Between"



To illustrate his last remark

Jonah in the whale, Noah in the arc

An' what did they do, what did they do?

Just when everything looked so dark?

What did they do, what did they do?



Man, they said, "You better accentuate the positive

Eliminate the negative an' latch on

To the affirmative, don't mess with Mister In Between

No, don't mess with Mister In Between

No, don't you mess with Mister In Between

No, don't mess with Mister In Between"

WRITERS

Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen

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Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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