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 \nG6addb13 C C7  \nMy only sunshine.  \nF  \nYou make me happy;  \nC C7  \nWhen skies are grey.  \nF  \nYou'll never know, dear, C Am  \nHow much I love you.  \nC G 7 F7 C  \nPlease don't take my sunshine away.  \nG6sus4 C  \nThe other night, dear, G6addb13 C C7  \nAs I lay sleeping;  \nF C C7  \nI dreamed I held you in my arms.  \nF  \nWhen I awoke, dear,  \nC Am  \nI was mistaken;  \nC G 7 F7 C  \nAnd I hung my head and cried.  \nCHORUS  \nG6sus4 C  \nLouisi-ana ;  \nG6addb13 C C7  \nMy Louisiana;  \nF C C7  \nThe place where I was borne.  \nF  \nWhite fields of cotton;  \nC Am  \nGreen fields clover, C G 7 F7 C  \nThe best fishing and long tall corn.  \nCHORUS  \nG6sus4 C  \nCrawfish gumbo, G6addb13 C C7  \nAnd jambalaya;  \nF C C7  \nThe biggest shrimp and sugar cane;  \nF  \nThe finest oysters;  \nC Am  \nAnd sweet strawberries;  \nC G 7 F7 C  \nToledo Bend to New Orleans.  \nCHORUS  \nHistory  \n\"You Are My Sunshine\" copyright is held by country music singer and former two term Governor of Louisiana (1944–1948 and 1960–1964) Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell with the Peer International Corporation, 1940 and 1977.  \nVirginia Shehee, a long-time Davis family friend and member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 1980, introduced legislation to make \"You Are My Sunshine\" the official state song.  \n1  \nThe song has been covered so often, that it is one of the most commercially programmed numbers in American popular music. The song, originally country Music, has virtually lost its country music identity, and represents both the national flowering of country music and its eventual absorption into the mainstream of American popular culture. The 1940 version by Davis was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress on March 21, 2013 for long-term preservation.  \nWhile Davis and Mitchell are the credited songwriters of\"You Are My Sunshine\", Davis was never known to  \nactually claim authorship, as he bought the song and rights from Paul Rice and put his own name on it, a practice not uncommon in the pre-World War II music business. Some early versions of the song credit the Rice Brothers.  \nWikipedia  \nContrary claims notwithstanding, Oliver Hood wrote \"You Are My Sunshine.\" He wrote the words to the song on the back of a brown paper sack, which his children still possess, and he first performed the song at a VFW convention in LaGrange in 1933; he sang it through a megaphone out of a hotel window, singing no less than twenty verses, most of which are lost. Never did the thought of copyrighting that music ever come to his mind-until \"You Are My Sunshine\" rose to the top of the music charts in 1940. It was then that Oliver Hood began copyrighting his music-one song too late. In 1957, at the urging of one of his sons, he wrote and copyrighted \"Somebody Stole My Sunshine Away,\" a song about the theft of \"You Are My Sunshine.\" The chorus from this little known sequel:  \nSomewhere the sun is shining,  \nBut there's rain in my heart today.  \nThere's no denying  \nMy heart keeps crying  \nSomebody stole my sunshine away.  \nGeorgia State University professor Wayne Daniel writes in Pickin' on Peachtree: \"Mr. Hood was a musician and music teacher widely know in the west Georgia area. Surviving family members and musical associates are adamant in their assertion that Mr. Hood wrote the song. Those whom I interviewed consistently place the time of the composition as the early 1930s.”To the people of west Georgia, as Professor Daniel concedes, the song's origin has never been a mystery. The author of \"You Are My Sunshine\" was Oliver Hood, my grandfather.  \nTheodore Pappas, based on research by Daniel and Toru Mitsui professor of English at Kanazawa  \nOliver Hood,(in the foreground), from [http://www.rosemontrecords.com/](http://www.rosemontrecords.com/)  \nJimmy Davis, YouTube Photo  \nUniversity, and Japan's foremost scholar on country music.  \n[www.ChroniclesMagazine.org](ww","cbCair9gJi5B9y4F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair9gJi5B9y4F","pdf",1111838,"English","# Chorus\n# History\n## Authorship and copyright claims\n## Cultural impact and preservation","[{\"question\":\"What recognition and cultural significance does the history section attribute to the song?\",\"answer\":\"The text states the song has been covered extensively and is among the most commercially programmed in American popular music, and it also notes the 1940 Davis version was added to the National Recording Registry for long-term preservation.\"}]","You Are My Sunshine - Song Lyrics and History | PDF"]