top of the world We never had one girl at a time We always had seven eight or nine But now they're gone, but we don't worry ( at least not much ) 'Cause we're sittin' on top of the world I'm going to the station, way down in the yard Gonna catch me a freight train, work's done got hard And though she's gone, I don't worry 'Cause I'm sittin' on top of the world Among others versions, Jerry Garcia would almost certainly have heard the Bill Monroe version, which included the "Dallas/El Paso" verse that the Dead sang: It was in the spring one sunny day My good gal left me Lord she went away But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world She called me in Dallas, in El Paso Said come on, daddy, I need you so But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world Ashes to ashes, dust to dust Show me a woman a man can trust But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world The Mississippi River, long, deep and wide The woman I'm loving is on the other side But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world [ the next two verses were not on all Bill Monroe versions ] You don't like my peaches, don't you shake my tree