1. Jimmie Davis – You are my sunshine
I have sung many times at senior citizen homes, and one of the favorite love songs they always want is: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” The chorus of the song is so nice, but unfortunately the verses are very sad. I guess Jimmie Davis wrote a lot of songs. I heard on the radio once that he gave Colonel Tom Parker the ‘Colonel’ title when he was governor of Louisiana.
2. With Dottie Rambo – Nobody’s darling and You are my sunshine
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Dottie Rambo was signed to Jimmie Davis’ record company in the old days.
3. There’s a new moon over my shoulder
4. Suppertime – Porter Wagoner show
Back in the 70′s I sang at a high school, and a student lent me a record of Jimmie Davis singing a song called: ‘The three nails.’ I call it ‘The three rusty nails.’ That song is so powerful. When I was learning to sing the song I would stand in the bathroom, because the acoustics were better there, and I would sing that song over and over again. The tears would be streaming down my cheeks, as I felt for Jesus suffering on the cross for my sins. No other song had ever done that to me. I remember recording that song on my first cassette tape, and someone told me once that he played that tape for another guy and he gave his heart to the Lord. When we first visited America, I saw that J.D.Sumner and and Stamps Quartet also had that song on one of their records.
6. I was there when it happened
9. I won’t have to cross Jordan alone
10. Someone to care
12. At the crossing
15. The three nails
Here is a “live” version of the song.
16. At Sundown
I had an LP of Jimmie Davis when I was in Africa where he sang a song, “At sundown, I’m going home, at sundown, no more to roam. Sweet voices are calling, calling me, and I’m going home at sundown.” About an old man who was going home for the last time. When we were in Canada the first time, we had a painting on the wall of Canadian geese flying at sunset across a field. At that time I was so homesick for Africa. I would stand in front of that painting and sing the Sundown song, and get so sad and blue. The heart is a strange thing. It is different from the mind. Even now while I am in Canada again, I long for Africa. I know there is lots of killing there, but my heart still longs for the good old days that I experienced when I was young.
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