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Rick Nelson – You Are My Sunshine lyrics
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When the skies are grey
You'll never know dear
How much I love you
So please don't take
My sunshine
Away


The other night dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
When I awoke dear
I was mistaken
And I held
My head
And cried


You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When the skies are grey
You'll never know dear
How much I love you
Please don't take
My sunshine
Away


You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When the skies are grey
You'll never know dear
How much I love you
Please don't take
My sunshine
Away

Please don't take my sunshine away x5
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    You are my sunshine, is the song my son would sing when he was 3 or 4, I have him on tape singing it, I cherish it because he passed away at the age of 24. I have a battery operated clock, I never have set it, or knew that it even played music, all of a sudden one night at 6: 10 it started to play you are my sunshine in a digital tune, it plays everynight, there is no where on the clock to pick a song or any kind of an alarm sound. I sing along with it and think of my son evan, he was and still is my sunshine.
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    There is definitely more to this sone than what is displayed here. It can have 2 meanings. 1st meaning: a death of a loved one who was cherished beyond all means. A love that you will never, never replace. I. E. Death of a parent, death of a loving spouse, sibling, etc. Like romeo and juliet. I don't know why it is a baby's song! 2nd. A lover who has lost his one and only soul mate or true love to another. He/she is totally depressed and yearns for his lover and is begging the other person who took his one and only love away from him not to take his sunshine away. Definitely not a kid's song.
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    Its mean alot to me when I was a child and my father left my mother she had a music box that he had gave her she no longer wanted it and she gave it to me and I would listen to it and sing along every time I opened it and my mother would smile knowing she was remebering my father and the good times, but not it has an even deeper meaning to me when ever my boyfriend of 2 years is having a bad time or is very depressed I sing this song to him and it normally always makes him feel better this song is just amazing and I'm sure it is powerful to everyone all over the world such a simple song wtih such big of a meaning(:
    -danielle.
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    When you're madly in love with someone, the only way to describe how they make you feel is like sitting inside a room that 30 degrees farenheit wearing a tank top, shorts, and flip flops for an hour and then stepping outside to bathe in the warmth of the sun.
    Even with that being said, she'll never know how much he loves her bc that's just one of the small ways in which he does.
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    My beautiful daughter Chyam died at 2 yeas of age in February 1990 at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. after open heart surgery. She fought a valiant fight but was eventually taken away to be with God as one if his Angels. I would sing that song over and over to her as she struggled in the ICU. Chyam would have turned 31 years old this coming December 4. She remains my little darling and I still tear up when I hear this song or recall her zest for life. I realize now that she was only a loaner and I take comfort in the two years she stayed with us. I look forward to our reunion one day down the road!
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    It's about someone being your world. The reason why they wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night and their reason to be happy about life. It doesn't matter what the circumstance, that person makes them happy. I think it's also about them leaving, whether it's a break up or a death or just one of life's curve balls, they're gone, and it's a terrible feeling. My boyfriend used to sing this to me and he passed away and, like the woman who lost her son, it makes me cry every time I hear it. It's so terribly sad to lose someone who means so much.
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    Gee. This sounds like her! Yes, she did turn him down and more. You "(were)" "his only sunshine. " she's actually driven him and his wife closer and "sunshine and shepherd will never be together. " previous post from another unregistered user! "someone who loves a girl and constantly has dreams about her yet he knows it is hopless for he was already turned down but he wont find someone new for it is only you his only sunshine. "
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    I have always sang this song to my baby and now I'm reading the lyrics and have never heard of the other part where it says the other night dear. To me this song now means that this person actually lost her baby after having her and loving her. I think the baby was born sick and she's praying to god not to take her cause of the difference her baby makes her feel and so she dreamed of her baby because shes missing her baby but when she woke up she relized it was just a dream so she held her head and cried. This is terrible my baby is now looking at me like why would you make this my song. Time to look for a new one.
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    I'm not sure why this set of lyrics doesn't show it, but a verse is missing from the song. I have always believed that it was a love song not a nursery rhyme. I added the verse below so y'all can decide for yourself.

    I'll always love you and make you happy
    If you will only say the same
    But if you leave me to love another,
    You'll regret it all one day.
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    When I was little my grandpa sang this too me all the time. He is still living but doesn't sing that to me anymore. I love this song and I love him so much. The reason I'm telling you all this is because every single detail in life matters. You just don't realize that now. Carpe diem.
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    I began singing this to my little boy while he was in the womb. It is the one thing that will calm him during any fit he will stop and just listen to me sing it then proceed to cry again after the song is over. Lol. I also changed the second verse to last night when I was sleeping I dreamt I held you in my arms and then all was right because you were always mine. I just like this more than the original. Lol.
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    I loved someone. I wish they were mine. I did everything I possibly can and she loves someone else. I play this song repeatedly. The songs about loving someone who doesn't really love you although they make you happy and you don't want them to take the happiness away because then you will become depressed and you will have bad pain. They are the reasons you have effort to get up in the morning and start your day and keep you positive but when they're gone. It's like you stopped living. Quite relatable.
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    This is the song my mom always sang to me when my life was caving in on me as a child. She would hold me, rock me, scratch my back and head and sing this song softly and then hum it until I couldn't cry anymore. I sang it to my daddy westie dog as he valiantly fought until that horrid tainted food that was tearing up his insides. I could see the death come over his eyes and he was trying to be so brave as his entire insides kept pouring out of him. So I rocked him as I did as a pup and sang this song while our vet gave the shot that gave him final peace. I have his kids and wifey who I sing this song to when they are not feeling well and it brings them the same comfort it always brought me. And if I'm blessed to have children in this life, will do the same for them.
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    My son died in november he was 17 days old this was the first song that I sang to him and I balled then a couple days after we buried him I was sleeping and I swear I had held him in my arms all night and I when I woke up he was not there I can not sing or listen to this song with out crying I love you jeremiah rip 11-19-2012.
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    From what I can tell it's about a person who got married, got cheated on and at least attempted suicide. It's very different from what else is here but let me explain. In the first verse it says "you are my sunshine" and "you make me happy when skies are gray" which obviously means the person singing loved someone. They were happy together. But then it says "please don't take my sunshine away" to me that says that sunshine (I will be referring to the one the person loved as sunshine) isn't dead because they are pleading that they aren't taken away. They aren't permanently gone yet. I also see this as there being a threat for lack of a better word. Something that causes this person so worry about loosing sunshine. In the second verse it says "I dreamed I held you in my arms when I awoke dear I was mistaken" meaning that they are gone for some reason. The reason is not specified but I think they are talking about their relationship, not whether they are dead or alive. It is cleared up a bit more in another verse I'll get to soon. It also says "So I hung my head and cried" I'm just speculating and it is a bit of a stretch but it could be referring to the act of hanging ones self as a means of ending their life because of losing sunshine. There is slightly more evidence later in the song. The verse I've mentioned a few times has a lot of evidence to back up my initial claims and it is very important to this interpretation. It says "if you leave me to love another you'll regret it a one day" i see it kind of as something from before the second verse. "If your leave me to love another" could be the person telling sunshine that they will be severely hurt if they are cheated on. (This is where I got the idea that there was cheating going on.) Which leads to the next part. "You'll regret it all one day." And sunshine did. Not because the person singing wanted revenge and did anything violent but because sunshine now had to live with the regret of knowing that because of them, because they left to love another, the person singing has made the decision to end their life. And it was all sunshine's fault. Now I'm not sure if they succeeded because well...they are singing the song. So they aren't dead. I'd say they might have attempted though.

    So um yeah that's my little theory/interpretation it's weird and dark but whatever! You can feel free to point out holes or question my logic. You don't have to see it this way either! You can feel free to have your own interpretation! This is just me connecting random dots. Oh and uh...sorry about your childhood. I may have just shattered part of it. (That was a joke. Also I'm pretty sure this follows the rules/tips but if it doesn't I'm really really sorry I wasn't trying to great the rule pls forgive me)
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