Barry Manilow — Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive And e-lim-i-nate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with mister in-between You got to spread joy up to the maximum And bring gloom down to the minimum And have faith, or pandemonium's 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, you got to Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive And e-lim-i-nate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with mister in-between 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, you got to Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive And e-lim-i-nate the negative And latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with mister in-between No, don't mess with mister in-between No, don't mess with mister in-between Spread joy