Sittin' On Top Of The World

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by Chester Burnett a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf
recording of 1957
from More Real Folk Blues (MCA 9279), copyright notice

One summer day, she went away
She gone and left me, she gone to stay
But now she's gone, and I can't worry
Because I'm sittin' on top of the world

Worked all the summer, worked all the fall
Had to take Christmas, in my overalls
But now she's gone, and I don't worry
Sittin' on top of the world

Goin' down to the freight yard, catch me a freight train
I'm gonna leave this town, work done got hard
But now she's gone, and I don't worry
Sittin' on top of the world