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You are my sunshine
Sep. 6th, 2004 12:29 pmMy only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey...
My father used to sing me this song when I was little and though I understood all the words, it was only later that I understood the meaning of some of it. The line "When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken, so I hung my head and cried" always sounded sinister to me: for some reason, the image in my mind was of a man sitting up in bed and I guess I only knew one meaning of "hang", because I figured that to "hang his head" he had to remove his head and hang it above the bed. And that would kill him, right? Maybe I was confusing the sentiment with that of another song my father liked (Barbara Allen) in which a young man does, in fact, die of unrequited love.
My father used to sing me this song when I was little and though I understood all the words, it was only later that I understood the meaning of some of it. The line "When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken, so I hung my head and cried" always sounded sinister to me: for some reason, the image in my mind was of a man sitting up in bed and I guess I only knew one meaning of "hang", because I figured that to "hang his head" he had to remove his head and hang it above the bed. And that would kill him, right? Maybe I was confusing the sentiment with that of another song my father liked (Barbara Allen) in which a young man does, in fact, die of unrequited love.
