You come here runnin' holdin' out your hand I'm gonna get me a woman and you can have that man Lord, I'm gone, gone, gone I don't worry Lord, I am sitting on top of the world I worked all summer, and all the fall I even spent Christmas, in my overalls But now shes gone An' I don't worry ‘Cos I'm sittin' on top of the world That Mississippi River, so deep an' wide My baby's standin', Lord on the other side Oh, but now she's gone, gone, gone An I don't worry 'Cos I am sittin' on top of the world One summer's day she went away (she went) She went and left me for good, to stay And now she's gone An' I don't worry 'Cos I'm sittin' on top of the world You come here runnin' holdin' out your hand I'm gonna get me a woman and you can have your man Well, now she's gone, gone, gone An' I don't worry 'Cos I'm sittin' on top of the world