You Are My Sunshine

Popularized/copyrighted by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell

You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You’ll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don’t take
My sunshine away

The other night, dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you
In my arms
When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken
So I hung my head and cried

You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You’ll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don’t take
My sunshine away

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Here are some inspiring performances of You Are My Sunshine, starting with the 1940 version that popularized the song.

And here is more of a home-grown blue grass version: