Accentuate The Positive Harold Arlen, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (#2 in 1945),
Perry Como, Johnny Mercer (#1 in 1945), Artie Shaw (#5 in 1945)

You’ve gotta accent-tcu-ate the positive, eli-my-nate the negative,
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.
Have faith or pandemonium’s li’ble 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 we better   Chorus

Don’t mess with Mister In-between.