You Are My Sunshine Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my You Are My Sunshine chord chart by Gene Autry. Very sweet and simple song to lean on the guitar. There is an F chord, but if you aren’t keen on barre chords yet, don’t worry! You can always use the simple Fmaj7 chord to get you through it for now which is a nice easy transition from the C chord.
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You Are My Sunshine Guitar Chords:
You Are My Sunshine Strumming Patterns:
Simple Strumming:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D D D D
Other Strumming:
1 + 2+ 3 + 4 +
DU DU D U DU
The ups are accented in this song due. I great way to play this would be to mute the down strums and accent the up strums. Kind of like a reggae strum. You can always add and remove down strums where needed.
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You Are My Sunshine Chord Chart:
Intro: C F(2/4)
Chorus:
C C
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
F C
You make me happy when skies are gray.
F C
You'll never know dear, how much I love you,
G C
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Verse:
C C
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping,
F C
I dreamed I held you in my arms.
F C
When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken,
G C
And I hung my head and cried.
Chorus:
C C
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
F C
You make me happy when skies are gray.
F C
You'll never know dear, how much I love you,
G C
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Verse:
C C
I'll always love you and make you happy,
F C
If you will only say the same.
F C
But if you leave me to love another,
G C
You'll regret it all some day.
Chorus:
C C
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
F C
You make me happy when skies are gray.
F C
You'll never know dear, how much I love you,
G C
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Verse:
C C
You told me once, dear, you really loved me,
F C
And no one else could come between.
F C
But now you've left me and love another,
G C
You have shattered all my dreams.
Chorus:
C C
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,
F C
You make me happy when skies are gray.
F C
You'll never know dear, how much I love you,
G C
Please don't take my sunshine away.
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