Sittin' On Top Of The World Lyrics

Sittin' On Top Of The World
Howlin' Wolf
(Chester Burnett)
Album: The London Howlin Wolf Sessions
feat Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman, CharlieWatts
Recorded May 6, 1970
Originally Released: Chess LP CH60008 (1971)


One summer day
She went away
She gone an left me
She gone to stay
But now she gone
An' I don't worry
'Cause I'm sittin' on top of the world

Works all the summer
And worked all the fall
I had to take my Christmas
In my over-halls*
But now she's gone
An' I don't worry
Because I'm sittin' on top of the world

(Instrumental & guitar solo)

Goin' down to the freight yard
Just to meet a freight train
I'm gon' leave this town
Work has done gotten too hard
But now she's gone
And I don't worry
Because I'm sittin' on top of the world

One summer day
She went away
She gone an left me
She gone to stay
But now she gone
And I don't worry
Because I'm sittin' on top of the world

(Instrumental & harmonica fades to end)


*overalls- those step into pants with a front and metal button clasps in the front. (Osh-kosh style!)