No need ‘a runnin’, holdin’ up your hand,
I can get me a woman, quick as you can a man,
But now she’s gone, and I don’t worry,
‘Cause I’m sittin’ on top of the world.

I’m on top of the world, with my leg hanging down,
My baby done quit me, gone out ‘a this town.
But now she’s gone, and I don’t worry,
‘Cause I’m sittin’ on top of the world.

Work all the summer and all the fall,
Now, they wanna take my Christmas, and my overalls.
But now she’s gone, and I don’t worry,
‘Cause I’m sittin’ on top of the world.

Bye, bye, baby, honey if you call it gone,
It may worry me some, baby, but it won’t last long.
But now she’s gone, and I don’t worry,
‘Cause I’m sittin’ on top of the world.

‘Sittin’ On Top Of The World’
Originally written by Walter Vinson / Lonnie Chapmon. This version as recorded by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee