SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD
(Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson)
(registered as Lonnie Carter, Walter Jacobs)
Mississippi Sheiks
1930 - Mississippi Sheiks - Feb. 17, 1930
1930 - Charlie Patton - May 28, 1930
1930 - Beale Street Rounders - Oct. 13, 1930
1930 - The Hokum Boys
1931 - Alabama Sheiks - Jan. 29, 1931
1931 - Harum Sacrums - Jan. 1931
1931 - George Ramsey And Mae Belle Lee - April 1931
1931 - Joe Evans And Arthur McClain - May 21, 1931
1932 - Milton Brown
1936 - Light Crust Doughboys
1940 - Shelton Brothers
194? - Red Murrell
1942 - Turner Junior Johnson
1947 - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
1949 - Ray Charles
1949 - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
1951 - "Harmonica" Frank Floyd
1955 - Curtis Gordon
1957 - Howlin' Wolf
1958 - Bill Monroe
1958 - Chet Atkins
1969 - Jerry Reed
1969 - John Sebastian
1970 - Emerson's Old Timey Custard-Suckin' Band
1971 - Ralph Stanley - Rebel
1971 - Howlin' Wolf
1972 - Johnny Shines
1973 - Don McLean
1973 - The Strangers
1974 - Sam Chatmon
1974 - John Lee Hooker
1976 - Frank Wakefield/Good Old Boys
1977 - Jethro Burns
1978 - Eddie Shaw and the Wold Gang
1979 - R.L. Burnside & the Sound Machine
1983 - Earl Scruggs
1984 - Benton Flippen & the Smokey Valley Boys Feb. 15, 1984
1984 - Chris Smither
1985 - Howard Armstrong
1986 - The Seldom Scene
1989 - Archie Edwards
1989 - Hubert Sumlin
1989 - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1990 - Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
1990 - Ronnie Earl
1991 - Radio Flyer
1991 - Lonesome River Band
1992 - Bob Dylan
1992 - Pat Travers
1992 - The Hackberry Ramblers
1992 - Frank Wakefield & The Good Old Boys
1993 - Jack Bruce
1993 - Taj Mahal
1993 - Dave Ray & Tony Glover
1994 - The Blues Band
1994 - Greg Kihn
1994 - Rinde Eckert
1994 - Sleepy LaBeef
1994 - Sunday's Well
1995 - Blackfoot
1995 - Svare Forsland
1995 - Hans Theessink
1996 - Taj Mahal
1996 - The Yardbirds
1997 - Homesick Mac & Sam Mitchell - Wolf, on: Two Long from Home
1997 - Michael "Hawkeye" Herman
1997 - The Jelly Roll Kings
1998 - Sundogs
1999 - '68 Comeback - Sympathy for the Record Industry, on: Love Always Wins
1999 - Geoff Bartley
1999 - Cafe R&B -
1999 - The Groundhogs -
1999 - Robert Lowery
1999 - Tara Nevins
2000 - Jacqueline Dankworth & James Pearson
2000 - The Delta Souls
2000 - The Blues Band
2000 - Tim Lake
2000 - Willie Nelson - Island, on: Milk Cow Blues
2000 - Bryan Bowers - Flying Fish, on: Friend For Life
2000 - Rod Price
2000 - Greg Ross
2000 - Bob Fox
2001 - Norman Blake
2001 - Van Morrison & Carl Perkins
2001 - Les Wilson & The Mighty Houserockers
2002 - Barrelhouse Chuck With Erwin Helfer
2002 - Bill Frisell
2002 - Brandon Giles - Dynasty, on: You Can't Beat That
2002 - Ellen McIlwaine
2002 - Michel Montecrossa
2002 - String Cheese Incident
2003 - BBM
2003 - Jack White
2003 - Bruce Dix & Jim Nunally
2003 - Ana Popovic
2003 - Chris Vallillo
2004 - Tom Adams/Michael Cleveland
2004 - Ken Emerson
2004 - Malcolm Lucard
2004 - Taj Mahal
2004 - James Blood Ulmer, Alison Krauss
2005 - Harry Manx
2005 - Tim May
2005 - Ana Popovic
2005 - James Blood Ulmer
2006 - Little Wolf and the Hellcats
2006 - Mare Edstrom
2006 - Odell Harris Broke & Hungry Records
2006 - Chet Lott
2007 - Michael Johnathon
2007 - Matej Ptaszek/Lubos Bena
2007 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
2007 - Richard Shindell
2008 - Oliver Buck & The New Madrids
2008 - B.B. King
2009 - Carolina Chocolate Drops
As Recorded By 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.
As recorded by JERRY REED:
Well it was in the Spring one sunny day
When my baby left me and she went away
Oh, but now she's gone and I don't worry
'Cause I'm sittin' up here on top of the world
Yeah, jump in there children
Mississippi River is deep and wide
That woman I love, love is on the other side
Oh, but now she's gone, gone, I don't worry none
'Cause I'm sittin', sittin' on top of the world
Yeah, get it cookin'
Mississippi River is deep and wide
That woman I love, love is on the other side
Oh, but now she's gone, gone, gone and I don't worry none
'Cause I'm sittin', sittin' on top of the world
Jump in there, boy
(Guitar Solo) Swarm, boys, swarm!
Well it was in the Spring, Lord, one sunny day
When my woman left me and, Lord, she went away
Oh, but now she's gone and I don't worry
Because I'm sittin' up here on top of the world
(Instrumental Break)
I'm sittin' on top of the world
Sittin' on top of the world
I don't worry, I don't worry
Sittin' up here on top of the world
On top of the world right now, woh yeah
As Recorded By 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.
(Contributed by Mel Priddle - November 2012
Updated - July 2014 =Ae=)
