The song You Are My Sunshine was written in 1931 by a blind school teacher called Oliver Hood. He first played this song to the kids at the blind school in Louisiana and got the kids to sing the first recording of this song. The song was older the words that hood rote in 1931 is now the most popular. Though Jimmy Davis put his own but it all comes back when folks talk about this song don't think that Davis was the writer of this song. Joe.