Sittin on top of the world lyrics doc watson
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 sittin' on top of the world
She called me up from down in El Paso
She said "Come back, daddy, ooh, I need you so"
And now she's gone, and I don't worry
Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world
If you don't like my peaches, don't you shake my tree
And get out of my orchard, let my peaches be
And now she's gone, and I don't worry
Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world
And don't you come here runnin', holdin' 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 sittin' on top of the world
It 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 sittin' on top of the world
Sitting on Top of the World
Doc Watson
[Introduction]
[E][A][E][B7][E][B7][E]
[Verse 1]
'[E]Twas in the spring one sunny day[E7]
My sweetheart [A]left me, Lord, she went a[E]way
[E]And now she's gone and I dont' [B7]worry
Lord, I'm [E]sitting on [B7]top of the [E]world
[Verse 2]
[E]She called me up from down in El Paso[E7]
She said "[A]Come back, daddy hooh, I need you [E]so"
[E]And now she's gone and I don't'[B7] worry
Lord, I'm [E]sitting on [B7]top of the [E]world
[Instrumental]
[E][A][E][B7][E][B7][E]
[Verse 3]
[E]If you don't like my peaches don't you shake my tree[E7]
'n get out of my [A]orchard let my peaches [E]be
[E]And now she's gone and I dont' [B7]worry
Lord, I'm [E]sitting on [B7]top of the [E]world
[Verse 4]
[E]And don't you come here runnin' holding out your hand[E7]
I'm gonna get me a [A]woman like you got your [E]man
[E]And now she's gone and I dont' [B7]worry
Lord, I'm [E]sitting on [B7]top of the [E]world
[Verse 5]
[E]Twas in the spring one sunny day[E7]
My sweetheart [A]left me, Lord, she went a[E]way
[E]And now she's gone and I dont' [B7]worry
This was one of the biggest hits to come out of the Mississippi Delta in the early blues era, recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks in 1930 — I don’t know if any other recording from rural Mississippi came close to it in sales during that period. I love the Sheiks, especially Lonnie Chatmon’s fiddling, but didn’t hear them until I was in my late teens or twenties, and had no idea who they were when I first heard this song on Doc Watson’s first album. I got the guitar part from Doc’s songbook, which provided tablature, and it may well have been the first piece I ever learned in open D tuning, and remains one of the few — I have trouble enough just keeping a guitar in tune, without attempting to retune it on a regular basis.
I don’t think Doc used open tunings all that often, either, but he explained in his notes to this song that he adapted his arrangement from Frank Hutchison’s “The Train that Carried my Girl From Town” and “Worried Blues.” At the time, I didn’t know who Hutchison was, either — and when I finally heard him, all I could think was how much he reminded me of Doc, except qui
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[00:22.11]It was in the spring
[00:24.92]One sunny day
[00:27.50]My sweetheart left me
[00:30.03]Lord, she went away
[00:33.05]And now she's gone
[00:35.71]And I don't' worry
[00:38.42]Lord, I'm sitting
[00:40.12]On top of the world
[00:44.75]She called me up
[00:47.42]From down in El Paso
[00:50.06]She said, "Come back, daddy
[00:52.70]Ooh, I need you so"
[00:55.69]And now she's gone
[00:58.25]And I don't' worry
[01:00.98]Lord, I'm sitting
[01:02.69]On top of the world
[01:06.73]
[01:26.95]If you don't like my peaches
[01:29.74]Don't you shake my tree
[01:32.34]And get out of my orchard
[01:34.84]Let my peaches be
[01:37.84]And now she's gone
[01:40.68]And I don't' worry
[01:43.34]Lord, I'm sitting
[01:44.91]On top of the world
[01:49.57]And don't you come here runnin'
[01:52.22]Holding out your hand
[01:54.92]I'm gonna get me a woman
[01:57.54]Like you got your man
[02:00.56]But now she's gone
[02:03.37]And I don't' worry
[02:05.99]Lord, I'm sitt