Intro
[Cm] [Cm#5] [Cm6] [Cm#5]
Gather 'round me, everybody
[Cmmaj7] [Cm6] [Cm#5] [Cm]
Gather 'round me while I preach some
[G] [Adim] [A#dim] [Bdim] [B#11]
Feel a sermon coming on here
[Cmaj7]
The topic will be sin
[A#dim] [Bdim] [G7] [G7#5]
And that's what I'm agin'
[C6]
If you wanna hear my story
[F7]
Then settle back and just sit tight
[Dm7] [G13]
While I start reviewing
[Dm7] [G13] [Cmaj7] [A7] [Dm7] [G13]
The attitude of doing right
[Cmaj7] [C#dim] [Dm7] [G13]
Chorus
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
You gotta ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
[F] [Fm] [Dm7] [G7]
E-lim-i-nate the negative
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
And latch on to the affirmative
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Don't mess with Mr. In-Between
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
You got to spread joy up to the maximum
[F] [Fm] [Dm7] [G7]
Bring gloom down to the minimum
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
Have faith, or pandemonium
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Liable to walk upon the scene
Verse
[C] [C7]
To illustrate my last remark
[F] [C]
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
[A7#5] [D7]
What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?
[G7]
Man, they said, we better
Chorus
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
[F] [Fm] [Dm7] [G7]
E-lim-i-nate the negative
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
And latch on to the affirmative
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Don't mess with Mr. In-Between
[A7#5] [Dm7] [G7] [C]
No Don't mess with Mr. In-Between
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
You got to spread joy up to the maximum
[F] [Fm] [Dm7] [G7]
Bring gloom down to the minimum
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
Have faith, or pandemonium
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Liable to walk upon the scene
Outro
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
[F] [Fm] [Dm7] [G7]
E-lim-i-nate the negative
[C] [C+] [Am] [C7]
And latch on to the affirmative
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Don't mess with Mr. In-Between
[A7#5] [Dm7] [G7] [C]
No Don't mess with Mr. In-Between
