From the recording Earthly Trials
Music and lyrics by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon of the Mississippi Sheiks
Lyrics
Sitting on Top of The World
Was in the spring, One sunny day
My sweetheart left me lord, she went away
And now she's gone, And I don’t worry
Lord, I'm sitting On top of the world
She called me up, from down in Al Paso
She said "Come back, daddy, ooh, I need you so"
And now she's gone, and I don’t worry
Lord, I'm sitting on top of the world
If you don't like my peaches, don't you shake my tree
'n Get out of my orchard, let my peaches be
And now she's gone, and I don’t worry
Lord, I'm sitting on top of the world
And don’t you come here running holding out your hand
I’m gonna get me a woman like you got your man
And now she’s gone and I don’t worry
Lord, I’m sitting on top of the world