Accentuate The Positive (acoustic)
Bing Crosby
OtherAdvanced for beginners7 chords
How to play it
Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.
E
E6Diagram coming soon
E7
A
F#m7Diagram coming soon
B7Diagram coming soon
C#7Diagram coming soon
Chords & lyrics
Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.
E E6 E7 A F#m7 You've got to ac-cen - tuate the positive, elim - inate the negative E E6 E7 F#m7 B7 E Latch on to the af-firmative, don't mess with Mr. In Be-tween E E6 E7 A You've got to spread joy up to the maximum, bring gloom down to the minimum E E6 E7 F#m7 B7 E Have faith or pande-monium liable to walk upon the scene E6 E E7 A To illus-trate my last re-mark, Jonah in the whale, noah in the ark A E C#7 What did they do, just when everything looked so dark, man they said, we better E E6 E7 A F#m7 ac-cen - tuate the positive, elim-inate the negative an' E E6 E7 F#m7 B7 E Latch on to the af-firmative, don't mess with Mr. In Be-tween, no, C#7 F#m7 Don't mess with Mr. In Be-tween, (etc)
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Chord set
E · E6 · E7 · A · F#m7 · B7 · C#7
Practice tip
Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.