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tuning: standard

Rick Nielsen has said this to be one of his favorite Trick songs
F#/G means slide up

intro:

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chorus
you’re on top of the world you’re on
top of the world and you can’t get any higher
on top of the world on top of the world tonight

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verse
[F#/G]It wasn’t [F#/G]easy it was [F#/G]hard as h[F#/G]ell
You didn’t get luck in a wishing well
You never worked so hard had so much pain wouldn’t change
for anything

second verse
Learned love from a movie screen
He was tough she was wild at fifteen
Hated school and had no dreams
Wasn’t going very far

third verse
[F#/G]then he got[F#/G] religion[F#/G] and she g[F#/G]ot a job
It’s on her back it’s in his job
And it costs lots of money money oh

intro four times

chorus

fourth verse
Break down nearly every day
Should’a know I couldn’t get away
Got lucky with the girl next door
she was lonely and didn’t care

fifth verse
She was young she was dark she was fair
Wrapped herself around you with her stare
You’d explode if she touched you there
touched you there touched you there

third verse

chorus twice

outro: repeat to fade
Can you hear me
Can you show me
You’re on top of the world tonight

-I’m here, I’m queer, I play 5-string bass