Level: 2/3
Tuning: Standard

"You Are My Sunshine" is a song popularized by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell[1] in 1939. It has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a country music singer and governor of the state in the year's 1944 to 1948 and 1960 to1964.

The song has been covered numerous times - so often, in fact, that it is "one of the most commercially programmed numbers in American popular music." Doris Day, Nat King Cole, The Marcels, Ray Charles, Ike & Tina Turner, The Rivingtons, Andy Williams, Burl Ives, Frank Turner, The Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, Anne Murray, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and many others have recorded the tune. But none did it with more charm and warmth than Mississippi John Hurt.

The arrangement taught in this lesson is played in the key of C in Standard tuning using an alternating bass technique.