From Country Gold:
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My Pappy's Pappy used to sing he played those honkey tonks It kept them all from starving once the cotton king was gone It's the lot cast to the sharecropper to still have bills to pay So he'd work all night to harmonize and then sweat all through the day That was back before this rock and roll, this electric guitar Before Jimmy Rodgers ever thought of yodeling a song And if he needed something new to sing to keep 'em coming through Then as he'd work the fields he'd figure out a tune: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear, how much I've loved you Please don't take my sunshine away One night when he was singing things the folks seemed like to hear A stranger came to nowhere town all polished and veneered There was nothing bout this man to think that he'd had a need to steal There was no one chasing after him and the cash he'd spent was real Well he'd said he was a music star, played from coast to coast And as a chile I used to hear him on the grand ole opry show He had that stetson hat, a walking cane, a big ol' diamond ring And in the evening he would hear my grandpa sing: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear, how much I've loved you Please don't take my sunshine away Ten years passed before the old man heard a radio It was bout then that he figured out them songs he'd wrote was gold But a rich man ain't got time to hear what a poor man has to say Though he'd learned to yell as loud he could until his dieing day I ain't saying I ain't never stole but I'd never steal a song To take the words from someone's mouth ain't nothing else but wrong They can take away his right to sing, the money he'd of made But they'll never take what's written on his grave: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear, how much I've loved you Please don't take my sunshine away |
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