Gather round me, everybody.
Gather round me while I preach some.
I feel a sermon coming on me,
and the topic will be sin,
and that's what I'm again.
If you want to hear my story,
you better settle back
and just sit tight while I start reviewing
and the attitude of doing right.
You got to accentu ate
the positive feeling,
monate the negative,
and latch on to the affirmative,
and don't mess with Mr. In -Between.
You got to spread joy up
to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Live up to walk up on the scene
I want to illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale
and Noah in the rock
What did they do
just when everything looked so dark?
Man, they said you gotta
accentu ate the positive
And feel in' my needs for negative
And latch on to the affirmative
And don't mess with Mr. In -Between
To illustrate my last remark
Shoulda and the way that they had
Noah in the lock
What did they do
just when everything
looked so dark?
Man, they said we better accen
tuate the positive
and heal it.
I need the negative,
latch on to the affirmative,
but don't mess with Mr. In -between, no,
don't mess with Mr. In -between,
they don't call that guy
Mr. In -between for nothing,
that's the man that'll get you
into all the trouble,
that middle man.