Version Mississippi Sheiks:
Worked all the summer, and all the fall,
Just trying to find my little all in all.
But now she's gone, I don't worry,
I'm sitting on top of the world.
Was in the spring, one summer day,
Just when she left me, she's gone to stay.
But now she's gone, I don't worry,
I'm sitting on top of the world.
Don't you come here runnin', holdin' up your hand,
Can't get me a woman, quick as you get a man.
But now she's gone, I don't worry,
I'm sitting on top of the world.
It have been days, I didn't know your name,
Why should I worry and pray in vain.
But now she's gone, I don't worry,
I'm sitting on top of the world.
Went to the station, down in the yard,
Gonna get me a freight train, work done got hard.
But now she's gone, I don't worry,
I'm sitting on top of the world.
The lonesome days, they have gone by,
Why should you beg me and say goodbye.
But now she's gone, I don't worry,
I'm sitting on top of the world.
Version Howlin' Wolf:
One summer day, she went away,
She gone and left me, she gone to stay.
But now she gone, and I don't worry.
'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world.
Worked all the summer, and worked all the fall,
I had to take my Christmas, in my overall.
But now she gone, and I don't worry,
Because I'm sitting on top of the world.
Goin' down to the freight yard, just to meet a freight train,
I'm gonna leave this town, well it's just got too hard.
But now she gone, and I don't worry,
Because I'm sitting on top of the world.
One summer day, she went away,
She gone and left me, she gone to stay.
But now she gone, and I don't worry,
'Cause I'm sitting on top of the world.