David (6yo) singing You Are My Sunshine song with Lyrics

You Are My Sunshine song

Here is David (6yo) singing You Are My Sunshine by Jimmie Davis:

 

About the origin of the song You Are My Sunshine

You Are My Sunshine Jimmie Davis

The song ‘You Are My Sunshine’ was popularized by Country Music Singer, Jimmie Davis, and Charles Mitchell in 1939. Originally Country Music, the song is one of the most covered song in American popular music. Notable musicians include Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Wayne King, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, The Marcels, Ray Charles, Ike & Tina Turner, Frank Turner, The Beach Boys, Anne Murray, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Mouse and the Traps, Gene Vincent, Madeline Eastman, Johnny and the Hurricanes, Barbra Lica and so on.

The song and its music has also been used in movies like Take Me Back to Oklahoma (1940), Strictly in the Groove (1942), Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Meet Me in St. Gallen (2018). It was also used in the TV series Bloodline (2016).

Since Jimmie was Governor of the state of Louisiana in the 1940s and 1960s, the song has been declared as one of the state songs of Louisiana.