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‘You Are My Sunshine’ (Johnny Cash)

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This is one of my very earliest memories: my father cradling me in his arms, rocking me back and forth, and singing this song to me: You Are My Sunshine. I used to get a lot of nightmares. This was how he comforted me. It always worked.

I need my Heavenly Father’s comfort now. This cancer business (not forgetting the rest of it!) is beginning to get to me. I cling to fond memories and call up others; and then it’s time for tears, because they are only memories.  All those people I loved are gone.

This turns out to be the only day this week I don’t have one or even two doctors’ appointments. *Sigh* I miss my cats.

 

‘You Are My Sunshine’ (Memory Lane Contest, Day 9)

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I think this may well be my earliest memory: my father rocking me in his arms at night because I couldn’t sleep, and singing this to me: You Are My Sunshine. I can’t have been more than two years old. Oh, Daddy!

Meanwhile, this is where you post your memories in our First Annual Memory Lane Contest. Anyone can play, and you can enter as often as you please.

We’ll even take more Gene Autry memories.

Cat Sings, Dog Sleeps

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Is it me, or does she sing this song like Gene Autry sings it? You Are My Sunshine–my father sang it, too.

Anyway, the nice lady sings, the little dog nods off, and somewhere offstage, the cat chimes in…

Memory Lane: ‘You Are My Sunshine’

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This song is one of my earliest childhood memories. Sometimes I’d get nightmares and fantods in bed, and I would cry. My father would come and pick me up, rock me in his arms, and sing this song to me. You bet I remember the words:

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey. You’ll never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away.”

Performed here by James Swanson (I think he’s a cousin to our friends, Joshua and Jeremy Swanson). Very nice job, Jimmy.

‘You Are My Sunshine’ (Joshua & Jeremy)

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Let’s see if I can sing this without starting to cry. “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey…” Nope. No can do.

When I was a very little boy with fantods in the night, my father would get up and pick me up, and sing this song to me. How well I remember that. “You’ll never know dear, how much I love you, please don’t take my sunshine away.” And he meant every word of it. That’s why it moves me so.

Anyway, here are our own Swanson brothers, Joshua and Jeremy, with their rendition of the songs. Nice work, guys! Got me all sappy. But that’s OK.

Bonus: Sweetest Cat Video You Ever Saw

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Patty found this on Facebook this morning, and I couldn’t wait till evening to share it with you.

Do you sing to your cat? I do. “Walk like a peep, talk like a peep” I sing to Peep the cat. This cat’s name is Bailey, and the little girl is Abby; and the song she sings is You Are My Sunshine. My father used to sing that to me if he had to walk the floor with me at night because I had gas or collywobbles–one of my very earliest memories, and one of the sweetest.

Abby, you are a glimpse into Heaven.

‘You Are My Sunshine’

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This is among my very earliest memories: my father carrying me in his arms, rocking me, and singing this to me: You Are My Sunshine. And if I tried to sing it now, wit you well, it would make me cry. I dassn’t even play it on my harmonica.

I had these fantods, see, of undefined scary things assembling outside my bedroom window and whispering evilly among themselves, just waiting for me to fall asleep so they could come in and get me. So Daddy had to come and calm me down, which of course he always did.

I hope he knows how much I miss him.

And now I have to stop, because it’s getting to me.

Sanity Break: Daddy’s Baby

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One of my very earliest memories is of my father carrying me in his arms and singing to me–probably because I woke of squawking in the middle of the night. Usually he sang “You Are My Sunshine,” and sometimes “Sweet Violets.” Oh, how dearly I remember that! And this video reminded me of it.

Our Heavenly Father loves us just as much, and He will re-unite us with those who loved us here on earth. I look forward to hearing Daddy’s song again. And I pray he knows that I remember it.

‘You Are My Sunshine’

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I think this might be my very earliest memory–my father singing this song to me, “You Are My Sunshine,” while rocking me in his arms.

He left out the sad verses.

Do you ever feel like what you really need, just now, is for somebody who loves you, who is very much bigger, stronger, and wiser than you, to pick you up iu his arms and sing to you?

We have a Father in Heaven who can do that, if we let Him.