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Gather 'round me, everybody |
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Gather 'round me, while I preach some |
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Feel a sermon coming on here |
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The topic will be sin |
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And that's what I'm agin' |
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If you wanna hear my story |
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Then settle back and just sit tight |
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While I start reviewing |
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The attitude of doing right |
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You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive |
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E-lim-i-nate the negative |
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And latch on to the affirmative |
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Don't mess with mister inbetween |
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You got to spread joy up to the maximum |
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Bring gloom down to the minimum |
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And have faith, or pandemonium |
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Liable to walk upon the scene |
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To illustrate my last remark |
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Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark, |
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What did they do, just when everything looked so dark? |
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Man, they said, we better |
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Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive |
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E-lim-i-nate the negative |
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And latch on to the affirmative |
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Don't mess with mister inbetween |
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No don't mess with mister inbetween |
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You got to spread joy up to the maximum |
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Bring gloom down to the minimum |
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And have faith, or pandemonium |
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Liable to walk upon the scene |
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You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive |
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E-lim-i-nate the negative |
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And latch on to the affirmative |
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Don't mess with mister inbetween |
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No don't mess with mister inbetween |
