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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.

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               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.