Accentuate The Positive chords by Glenn Miller

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Em
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B
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Dm
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C#m
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E
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Fm
A#
D

Verse 1
Em 
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B 
Em 
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Em 
C#dim 
Em 
Gather   round me,
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everybody
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Em 
C#dim 
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Em 
Gather   round me, while I   pray, sir
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A 
I feel a certain blood coming on me
Dm 
B 
A 
B 
Now the topic will be sin
A 
B 
An d that's what I'm against
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Em 
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So if you want to hear my story
Em 
C#dim 
Why then settle back and just
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Em 
D# 
sit tight
B 
A 
While I'm reviewing
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Em 
B 
the attitude of doing right
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You got to accept that
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you ate the positive
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B 
G# 
and he ate the neg ative
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B 
I   made the negative,
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B 
Em 
that's all to the affirmative
A 
B 
A 
Don't mess with Mr. Inbetween
C#m 
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You   gotta spread joy
A 
up to the maximum,
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A 
bring gloom down to the minimum
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Em 
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An d have faith,
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Em 
A 
the pandemonium's lifeboat
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A 
B 
to walk upon the sea
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B 
To illustrate my last remark,
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are they in the way?
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No, they aren't
D# 
What do they do
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A 
B 
just when everything looks so dark?
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So dark
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And they said,
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B 
Em 
A 
G# 
we'd better accentuate the positive in a  letter.
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I need the negative.
D# 
Em 
Latch on  to the affirmative.
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Don't mess with Mr. Inbetween.
Em 
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B 
No, don't mess with Mr. Inbetween.
C#m 
E 
A 
B 
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Em 
D# 
Em 
E 
B 
Now this is Reverend
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Ray McKinley now harkin' to me
While I tell you about the parable
E 
of Norman Dee.
C#m 
B 
Em 
The devil said to Hitler,
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Em 
why they wouldn't dare
D# 
They can't nobody land in Europe
at least, not there
And even if they tried,
you could snag them for fair
Em 
D# 
You could shoot them from the beaches
and bomb them from the air
And just to make sure,
you've nothing to fear
I got the Emperor Hirohito
to cover the rear
E 
But the Lord said to Winnie
Bb 
and to Franklin D
And I'll gather round, boys,
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Bb 
and listen to me
E 
Uncle Joe's been a -carry
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Fm 
in' lots of the load
But now you got the stuff, go on, hit the road
E 
I  know it ain't been done
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E 
on a beach like that
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Fm 
But I think that together
you can take that cap
If you accentuate the positive,
Fm 
June the 6th
D# 
B 
F# 
They did and now the devil's in a heck of a fix
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F# 
D# 
B 
D# 
B 
F# 
B 
D# 
A# 
B 
A 
B 
F# 
D# 
Hey, hey, hey, hey,
I wish you boys wouldn't
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G# 
mess around like that
B 
D# 
Negative kind of jazz music.
Let's brighten it up a little bit
here.
Bb 
D# 
Bb 

Verse 2
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No, no, no, that's not it at all.
That's that in -between job.
What's the matter
with you boys back there?
Lay some positive jazz
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G# 
on the congregation.
Fm 
Bb 
D# 
D# 
Bb 
D# 
Bb 
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To illustrate my  last remark,
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Jonah in the well, Noah in  the ark.
What did they do,
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Bb 
just when everything looked so dark?
Man, they said better
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accentuate the positive,
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D# 
feel eliminate the negative.
Be sure to latch on to the affirmative,
Fm 
Bb 
D# 
don't mess with Mr. In -Between.
D# 
Oh, don't mess with Mr.
In -Between.
Bb 
Accentuate the positive,
eliminate the negative.
B 
Don't mess with Mr. In -Between.
Mr. In -Between.
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