This Banjo TAB for You are my sunshine is in the key of G. It’s easy enough for the beginner banjo player. It uses only a few basic banjo rolls-your forward and alternating thumb roll. As a prerequisite, the major ornamentation you need to know is a pull-off.

5-string Banjo TAB for You are My Sunshine

You are my Sunshine is a three chord song. You’ll just need to know your G, C, and D chords.

I wrote the arrangement so that any listener would clearly hear the melody.

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“You Are my Sunshine” 5-string banjo VIDEO

The You are my Sunshine banjo tab comes in easy to read PDF format. You’ll receive the file IMMEDIATELY via email. Your friends and family are sure to love this one. Play it around the campfire or at your next jam session!

Some history about You are my Sunshine:

You are my Sunshine was copywritten by Jimmy Davis & Charles Mitchell in 1939. Many people don’t know this, but the song wasn’t written by Jimmy Davis, he simply purchased the rights to it. Legend has it a man from Lagrange, GA named Oliver Hood wrote the tune at an earlier point in time. Gene Autry sang this classic song in his movie Back in the Saddle again.

Jimmy Davis of course later went on to become governor of Louisiana. When I was younger, I remember seeing him at bluegrass festivals in GA a time or two.