Chords for Doc Watson ~ Sitting on Top of the World ~ Bristol 9-20-08

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_ _ _ _ _ song. _
When my sister Ethel, she had that old handicap like I've got only her
blindness was glaucoma and mine was an accident at birth that happened by the
midwife her _ eye drops were [D] contaminated. _ _ _ _ _
That's the truth what the good doctor
[A] told me. _ _ _
[F#m] I _ [B] _ _ _ _
[C#] don't know how they could tell David [A] but they _ _ looked at my eyes under
_ [D] microscopes and said that's what did it.
_ Anyway _ _ my [N] sister was seven _ and I was _ _ 17
I was ten years older than she was and I used to climb the way that and _ _ _ cut and
trimmed the cherry [G#] trees _ [Bm] _ _ [F#m] _ _
till [N] I could climb and pick the good old mountain
sour cherries some of you [D] familiar with them sure where the trees haven't died
out.
_ I climbed up about [N] 20 feet and there was a good sitting place up there
_ _ and I was a picking cherries I'd already sent a couple of pecks I'd let down on a
rope in the house by my older [Bm] sister _ _ and my little [F#m] _ seven-year-old sister came
over that under the tree and said, _ _ _ Barthel throw me down [G] the tag of cherries.
I [N] said honey if I do they'll get sand all over me they'll shell off anyway you
couldn't find [D] them all. _
[N] Tell you what this rope is a big old rope I'll make
you swing like in it and you sit down in there now and hang on with both hands
and I'll bring you up here and I'll set you on my knee _ and pull a limb in and you
can eat all the cherries you want.
It was 20 feet up from the ground and when I
got her up there she was real quiet for a few minutes _ then she said [D] you know _ I've
often [C#] wondered what it would be like to be up in the tree like you get to do [E] and
pick cherries and [N] now I know what it feels like the sway of the tree the wind
and the leaves around my head is so wonderful it's like being on top of the [D] world.
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_ _ [D] _ _ Woo! _ _
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was in the spring _ _ on a sunny day _ _ my little [G] sweetie left me _ thought she [D] went away _ _ _
and now she's gone _ _ and I don't [A] _ worry _ _ saw [G] them sitting _ [A] on top [D] of the world _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ going down to the station _ _ down in the yard _ _ we're gonna catch me a [G] first train
_ I've been working [D] too _ hard _ _ _ _ [Dm] and [D] _ _ _ _ I [A] don't worry
_ _ _ thought [G] I'd set you _ [D] on top of the world.
Take it pretty David. _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ Meow. _ _ _
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Don't you come here running _ _ _ pulling out your hand _ _ I'm gonna get [G] me a woman _ baby
like you got [D] that man _ _ _ and now she's _ gone _ _ I [Am] don't [G] worry
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_ Lord [Dm] I'm setting [G] you [A] on top of [D] the world.
Let's take it together.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ If you didn't like my peaches _ _ why did you shake my tree?
_ _ Stay out [C#] of my [G] orchard _ baby let my [Dm] peaches be.
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Now she's gone _ _ _ and I [A] don't _ worry _ _
Lord [G] I'm setting you [A] on _ top [D] of the world.
Pick me one more David. _
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Meow. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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