Was in the spring, one sunny day My sweetheart left me, Lord, she went away And now she's gone and I don't worry Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world She called me up from down in El Paso She said "Come back, daddy, ooh, I need you so" And now she's gone, and I don't worry Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world If you don't like my peaches, don't you shake my tree And get out of my orchard, let my peaches be And now she's gone, and I don't worry Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world And don't you come here runnin', holdin' out your hand I'm gonna get me a woman like you got your man And now she's gone, and I don't worry Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world It was in the spring, one sunny day My sweetheart left me, Lord, she went away And now she's gone, and I don't worry Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world
I would not compare a garage band and a stunning young Guitar player to a National Treasure. Doc's touch, rich voice and human warmth are on another level. We can only appreciate all artists for what they offered enriching our lives
@@MedSurg420 I apologize for a rude comment. The Deadheads I jammed with in Boston.and San Diego used the term "The best garage band ever" on account of the eclectic and varied repertoire I prefer tradtional versions, e.g. the Skip James and Willie Johnson modern takes in Scorsese's movies drive me up the wall. Pete Seeger said that a Chef may be trying hard to express himself but our stomach might not agree. Garcia was a very accomplished banjoist and loved old time stuff so he never strayed as far as the guys who butchered Skip's and Willie's songs.
It’s probably plain 4/4 time technically, but since the flat-picking has a chugging rhythm, so I’d write it as 2/2 (cut time). And just in my head I’d say BPM is 88-90
@@PaddyByrne931 you’re very welcome! - by the way, I checked out some of your music on your channel. You’ve got a great voice for stripped down guitar - almost Elvis Costello nasally on that She Knows cover; and really gritty in that song “love will not conquer” or whatever it’s called. I love the lyrics to that. Did you write it - or take it from an Irish ballad perhaps. I recall a brief run I found in an old book of songs from the early 1800s that goes: “My love was handsome, tall, and young, Genteel his gait, yet manly strong, and O! Sweetest language grac’d his tongue” Obviously these are words spoken by a women about a man, whereas your lyrics are spoken by a man about a women … and are less purely complimentary; but the whole series of idea phrase is remarkably similar. Edit: I should add that while I am a musician, and a lover of history, poetry, and language, I don’t know a great deal about Irish ballads and their themes, except via Yeats and some lectures by Seamus Heaney I saw in the late 90s. So perhaps your song is just a development of a traditional Irish ballad in a typically Irish way. In which case I think it’s wonderful. The Scottish ballads we’ve passed down in my family are similar in their changes and reapplication. Anyway, cheers from New Orleans, USA
