- Written by
- Walter Vinson
- Language
- English
- Comments
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The Walter Vinson song "Sitting on Top of the World" is a more bluesy (or bluegrass) type song and starts out either "Now she’s gone but I don’t worry, ‘Cause I’m sitting on top of the world" or "It was in the spring one sunny day, My good gal left me Lord she went away". More than half of its melody was in Tampa Red's instrumental composition You Got To Reap What You Sow from the previous year.
NOTE: There is another I'm Sitting on Top of the World song by Henderson/Young/Lewis that is a more big band era-type song that starts off "I'm sitting on top of the world, I'm rolling along".
Many of the Vinson songs are mistakenly credited to Henderson/Young/Lewis. Bill Monroe's 1957 recording erroneously credited Henderson/Young/Lewis, and now most of the bluegrass versions follow suit - but they have no lyrical or musical relation to the Henderson work. - Licensing
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Adaptations
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Sitting on Top of the World written by Walter Vinson English February 17, 1930
- Things 'Bout Coming My Way written by Walter Vinson English 1931