|
01 Dec 98 - 05:52 PM (#47538) Subject: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: jjzuniga I'm looking for the chords or tabs for You are My Sunshine. I'm searched all over the web!!! Please help!!! |
|
01 Dec 98 - 06:32 PM (#47545) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE (Jimmie Davis) From: Roger in Baltimore Dear jjzuniga, But is it folk music? Well, I don't know and I don't care.
YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
D
CHORUS: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
2. I'll always love you and make you happy,
3. You told me once, dear, you really loved me, Enjoy the song! Roger in Baltimore |
|
01 Dec 98 - 08:04 PM (#47556) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: *THE LYRICS ARE IN THE DATABASE* along with the tune!!! ...but not the chords |
|
03 Feb 03 - 07:34 PM (#881879) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Frankham I believe that it is folk music. Jimmy Davis reputedly did not write the song but used it as his gubernatorial themesong to get elected in Louisiana. He is supposed to have purchased it. Some believe that it was originated in Georgia. It was recorded by the Blue Sky Boys in the 1920's. Frank |
|
03 Feb 03 - 08:50 PM (#881934) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,Q Thread 37133- Did Jimmie Davis really write Sunshine? has a lot of material, especially from Stewie. There is no evidence of recording before the 1930s. Sunshine Jimmie Davis wrote some pretty good songs, but it is possible that he and Charles Mitchell (listed as co-writer) purchased "....Sunshine." |
|
03 Feb 03 - 08:54 PM (#881942) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,Q Forgot to note- at lewast two sets of chords are in Cowpie. |
|
03 Feb 03 - 09:26 PM (#881960) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Sorcha We do it in G which would make the chords G,C,G,C,G,D and G. |
|
03 Feb 03 - 09:34 PM (#881963) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Clinton Hammond I like it better, as someone suggested a few months ago in an other thread, sung in the past tense, and played in a minor key... Creepy! :-) |
|
25 Nov 03 - 05:14 PM (#1060820) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,davidkidd.net "You are my Sunshine" chords: Digital sheet music says that in 1931 the orginal key was F. However cowboylyrics.com/tabs/blake-norman/you-are-my-sunshine-8002.html says Norman Blake in "O Brother Where Art Thou" sings its in F# . And lastly guitartabs.com says just play it in G like this: intro G D7 G verse G G7 C G C G G D7 G cho G G7 C G C G G D7 G. |
|
25 Nov 03 - 11:55 PM (#1061061) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: mack/misophist Just a historical note: When I was a kid in Japan, it sometimes seemed like every second Japanese girl was singing that song. Once, on a Tokyo street, there must have been 20 or 30 of them singing together. I think it was just happenstance, but impressive, nonetheless. |
|
26 Nov 03 - 12:07 PM (#1061322) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Chris in Wheaton My 3-year old grand-daughter loves the song - so I do it for her a lot. We went to a song circle and they did it. After the song, everyone was quiet waiting for the next choice and she says, "play it again!" Shows a lot of potential, I think. Chris |
|
26 Nov 03 - 04:08 PM (#1061502) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST Further to the chords question: It looks like you can buy for $3.95 sheet music of a "You are my Sunshine" arrangement by DUANE EDDY! from www.laurasmidi.com/cgi-bin/shmtitles.cgi?newtitle=You%20Are%20My%20Sunshine. Also I found a midi file of an old-timer-pianee arrrangement of "You are my Sunshine" named pmn0041591.mid. But I can't remember where I found it. You can print out the score of mid files using a free test version of "midi notate" from |
|
26 Nov 03 - 05:06 PM (#1061536) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Inükshük This has to be the most recognized song on the planet. My granddaughter chose it for her number in the school's talent show last year. Her first choice was something by the Spice Girls, but her dad and I couldn't provide a satisfactory background. |
|
26 Nov 03 - 05:20 PM (#1061552) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Mudlark And it's the ONLY song many older people w/dementia can remember. They will be sitting there in their wheelchairs, head sunk on chest thru all the golden oldies, including My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean, but man, everybody sings this one, everybody! |
|
26 Nov 03 - 09:36 PM (#1061735) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,Obie I do this song in "C". I also like to add a very quick "G" or dominant into the first line on "lay/only" going back tonic on "sleeping/sunshine". Does anyone else do it this way? Thanks, Obie |
|
27 Nov 03 - 08:20 AM (#1061948) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,T-boy It's a lovely song and great fun to sing and play. However, I am fascinated by something to do with this thread - my question is this: If you can't work out the chords to a simple-assed three-chord ditty like this, then what exactly do you get out of playing music? This is not meant to be as rude as it might sound, I genuinely am interested in other people's perceptions. |
|
27 Nov 03 - 07:16 PM (#1062257) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: The Fooles Troupe Actually T-boy, I'm partly with with on this - many older simple folk style tunes work well with the I IV V7 (or even I IV V) major chord progressions, so it's often worth trying this progression. It's just that the order of the chords varies for different songs... :-) Many tunes written before the 1960's and 1970's will fit. And then there is my theory that there are only seven folk tunes - but then I am a Low Whistle player... :-) |
|
27 Nov 03 - 10:29 PM (#1062319) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Mudlark T-Boy...I must say, that was my first reaction as well. I'm a very low level self-taught guitarist, dont even know the letters of the strings I play, and even I can figure out the chords to this, even where to throw in a minor or 2 just for fun. I wondered if the inquirer played some sort of oddball instrument or ????? |
|
28 Nov 03 - 02:55 AM (#1062371) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: songs2play The Mississippi John Hurt rendition (which I admit I've only recently heard) has renewed my pleasure in this song. I think it's best played in C, but the stretch of the little finger up to the fifth fret makes it easier - FOR ME - to play with the capo on the 4th fret. |
|
14 Nov 06 - 03:53 PM (#1885711) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Gulliver Why doesn't the first verse of this song rhyme? I sing "by my side" instead of "in my arms" (folk process making itself felt). I don't understand whoever wrote it (still a matter of debate) not getting this right! Gulliver |
|
14 Nov 06 - 04:57 PM (#1885761) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,Obie A well written song does not always have to rhyme in an expected pattern, but there is an internal lilt that holds the consistancy. This is very apparent in many Gaelic songs but rare in English ones. |
|
14 Nov 06 - 05:38 PM (#1885802) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Greg B Anybody else notice a familial resemblence between this song's melody and 'This Land is Your Land?' |
|
14 Nov 06 - 07:13 PM (#1885909) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,Obie Yeh, Woody borrowed from others but the others probably borrowed from others as well. |
|
14 Nov 06 - 07:58 PM (#1885962) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Genie Obie, I do the chords pretty much the same way you do. I also throw some 7ths into the mix sometimes, as well as a minor or two, just for texture. (I don't have a guitar handy or I'd be more specific.) Genie |
|
14 Nov 06 - 08:12 PM (#1885978) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Rockhen I love this song, I remember my nanna singing it to me and I sang it to my kids when they were small...i sing it to them now to really irritate them, teenagers, lol :-) Still has special memories for me of lovely times. |
|
15 Nov 06 - 04:03 PM (#1886114) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: McGrath of Harlow It irks me slightly when this gets sung all happy clappy. In fact it's a very sad song. The poor bloke is heartbroken... (though hoping the song might do the trick after all.) |
|
16 Nov 06 - 02:32 AM (#1886170) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Sooz I agree - it is a really sad song and gets worse as it goes on. I tend to sing just the first verse and lots of choruses but thats bad enough! |
|
16 Nov 06 - 11:37 AM (#1886360) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Scrump If you can't work out the chords to a simple-assed three-chord ditty like this, then what exactly do you get out of playing music? This is not meant to be as rude as it might sound, I genuinely am interested in other people's perceptions. An interesting question arises from this (higher up in this thread). I expect it might have been raised before though (?) so apologies if so. I seem to find it easy to work out chords for most songs, although I admit I've had to struggle occasionally if the song uses 'odd' chords or has an unusual structure (I haven't made this very clear but I hope it vaguely makes sense). Likewise I can play fairly well by ear, and pick up tunes quickly, e.g. I can usually play along with a tune I haven't heard, unless again it's something pretty unusual. And I expect there must be people who can do it better than me, and woulodn't struggle where I do, perhaps because they have greater musical knowledge than me and can recognise every chord by hearing it (whereas I might have to work out if its a 13th or something, by trial and error). Yet I know people who are trained musicians and can sight read in real time better than I can, but they seem to have trouble doing this type of thing, i.e. playing by ear, and would struggle to play along with a simple tune if they don't have the music in front of them. Is playing by ear or being able to work out chords by listening to a song, something acquired by practice (perhaps because you are untrained and have to do it), or do you think it's something you either have or don't have? Maybe trained musicians don't have the need to play by ear and haven't developed the skill (if it is a skill). What do others think? This is just something that interests me, no axe to grind or anything. |
|
16 Nov 06 - 12:01 PM (#1886381) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: M.Ted Many people who have classical training never develop the ability to play by ear. Technically, you don't need it, because everything is on the page, and you have been taught how to render it. It has always struck me that that approach reflects a lack of creativity and imagination. Folk music, however you want to define it, is very different, because there is very little layed out--the player/singer has their own style and approach, which, in some instances, even changes the melody and lyrics of the song-- The deal is that for folk music, you really learn how the music works, and then apply it--the chord changes for any given style are fairly predictable, once you learn them--so it tends to be more a case of getting so familiar with a type of music that you recognize what is happening, rather than really having to work it out from scratch-- Given that, though, there are times when a tune that seems to have a straight forward chord progression turns out to be much harder to work out than you expect-- |
|
16 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM (#1886528) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: The Fooles Troupe ... and Dem's de Creative Ones Ted! |
|
16 Nov 06 - 07:44 PM (#1886534) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: McGrath of Harlow I've don't normally think consciously in terms of chord progressions as such. For me it's much more a matter of following the melody and fitting in chords that fits the main notes, from a limited number that I'll know are available in any particular key I'm playing in. It comes to the same thing in many ways, but it's a different way of seeing things from those seem to think in terms of chord sequences as such. That's more common in jazz maybe. |
|
16 Nov 06 - 07:49 PM (#1886540) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: GUEST,Angie "Many people who have classical training never develop the ability to play by ear. Technically, you don't need it, because everything is on the page, and you have been taught how to render it. It has always struck me that that approach reflects a lack of creativity and imagination." Well put, M.Ted. The learned dependency on the abstract notation of music on the page can be a real problem. I have a friend who can only learn traditional tunes from a tablature transcription, because he doesn't trust his ears. He's an excellent musician otherwise; but in this respect he holds up the need for the written page as a barrier to music that, I feel, needs first to be apprehended with the body. It's dance music. "You Are My Sunshine" is pretty simple, but nobody's offered the chords past one of the first posters, and I'd actually disagree... here's how I play it. ( in D) D (I) A (V) D (I) You are my sunshine, my only sunshine G (IV) D (I) You make me happy when skies are grey G (IV) D (I) You'll never know, dear how much I love you D (I) A (V) D (I) Please don't take my sunshine away |
|
16 Nov 06 - 08:08 PM (#1886548) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: M.Ted A lot of guitar players, at least of the folkie variety, work from chord progressions. They write from chord progressions, too. I think that's why there are so many new songs that have underdeveloped melodies-- |
|
16 Nov 06 - 08:16 PM (#1886552) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: McGrath of Harlow Better really to make up the tune and sing the song a few times before reaching for the guitar to work out an accompaniment (if you decide it needs one).. |
|
16 Nov 06 - 11:08 PM (#1886704) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Gulliver A lot of discussion about chords for a very simple song--you could hardly find simpler. I'm still at odds about the rhyme in the first verse. I notice Boxcar Willie changed the last line to something like "still peeping through the bars"--suggesting the singer is in prison?? |
|
17 Nov 06 - 01:43 AM (#1886768) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: M.Ted I agree wholeheartedly--in fact, it seems to me that, by it's very nature, the term "accompaniment" requires that the tune be written first-- As to making it simpler, Gulliver(and for your consideration, Angie)--I have been playing the melody in C, using what is basically an Am/added 2nd chord, but is cut down to just A B and C, played in a row on the keyboard four to the measure-It is a bit edgier than this tune is usually done, but lends a bit of depth-- |
|
17 Nov 06 - 03:16 AM (#1886793) Subject: RE: Chords for You Are My Sunshine? From: Scrump Better really to make up the tune and sing the song a few times before reaching for the guitar to work out an accompaniment (if you decide it needs one).. Agree totally, McGrath of Harlow. If I try to use the guitar to work out a tune, it inevitably restricts the outcome (maybe that's a reflection on my limited ability, however). I prefer to think of a tune in my head first, and then work out the arrangement as a second stage. |