Who Wrote You Are My Sunshine? We Found Out In Shreveport
Sing Song is a big deal at Camp. All of camp gathers either around a campfire or at the big pavilion by the pool to sing and dance to traditional songs like “Bobby McGee” and “You Are My Sunshine”. It wasn’t until last night’s camp party at Shreveport while singing “You Are My Sunshine” did we learn it’s origin.
One of our future camp moms, Lana, pointed out that “You Are My Sunshine” was written by former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis. I did my homework and it turns out she’s right. According to Wikipedia, a version of the song was copyrighted in 1940 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell.
On another note, our first Camp Party of the season started off with a bang. Future camper Alex auditioned for Talent Show by singing an orignal song titled “Trust”, Caleb, Zoe and friends played a mean game of ninja, and campers got to unveil the 2013 camp highlight video.
We also introduced the 2013 Social Media Derby! Want to know to win this little contest? Be sure and make it to a camp party near you !
We’re headed to Texarkana this evening – we can’t wait to hang with the Taylor and Andrus families and their friends!
