You Are My Sunshine is nearly always attributed to the recently deceased Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's sometime "singing governor," and the copyright is given as 1940. A retirement home resident recently told me that another man had written it and Jimmie Davis took credit for it. [Also my mother and several others of her generation swear that they heard the song as children, which would have been in the 1920s.

I have also heard, alternately, that the song was inspired by Davis's horse, Sunshine, or that the horse was named after the song.

If you have the real dope on this, I'd like to hear from you.