'Twas in the spring one sunny day

My god gal left me she'd gone away

But now she's gone and I don't worry

Lord I'm sitting on the top of the world

She called me down from El Paso

Said, "Come up daddy I need you so"

But now she's gone and I don't worry

Lord I'm sitting on the top of the world.

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Show me a woman a man can trust

But now she's gone and I don't worry

Lord I'm sitting on the top of the world.

Mississippi river long deep and wide

The woman I'm loving gone in other side

But now she's gone and I don't worry

Lord I'm sitting on the top of the world.