Sittin' On Top Of The World

Doc Watson

Written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                           C7
Was in the spring one sunny day
              F                     C
My sweetheart left me Lord she went away
                                G7
And now she's gone and I don't' worry
C                   G7         C
Lord I'm sitting on top of the world

Verse 2

                                 C7
She called me up from down in El Paso
                   F                    C
She said come back daddy ooh I need you so
                                G7
And now she's gone and I don't' worry
C                   G7         C
Lord I'm sitting on top of the world

Verse 3

                                                C7
If you don't like my peaches don't you shake my tree
                   F                      C
Then get out of my orchard let my peaches be
                                G7
And now she's gone and I don't' worry
C                   G7         C
Lord I'm sitting on top of the world

Verse 4

                                                 C7
And don't you come here runnin' holding out your hand
                   F                       C
I'm gonna get me a woman like you got your man
                                G7
And now she's gone and I don't' worry
C                   G7         C
Lord I'm sitting on top of the world

Verse 5

                               C7
It was in the spring one sunny day
              F                     C
My sweetheart left me Lord she went away
                                G7
And now she's gone and I don't' worry
C                   G7         C
Lord I'm sitting on top of the world