Update Sunday: Thank you reader Pam for catching me on this. Looks like this song has some Louisiana roots. Wikipedia claims:

Two versions of “You Are My Sunshine” were recorded and released prior to Jimmie Davis’s. The first was recorded for Bluebird Records (RCA-Victor’s budget label) on August 22, 1939 by The Pine Ridge Boys (Marvin Taylor and Doug Spivey), who hailed from Atlanta. The second was recorded for Decca Records on September 13, 1939 by The Rice Brothers Gang. This group was originally from north Georgia, but had relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana where they were performing on the city’s KWKH radio station. The version by Jimmie Davis was recorded for Decca Records on February 5, 1940.

Davis and Charles Mitchell are the credited songwriters of “You Are My Sunshine”. According to many sources[1], Davis bought the song and rights from Paul Rice and put his own name on it, a practice not uncommon in the pre-World War II music business. Some early versions of the song do credit the Rice Brothers. According to some accounts, clarinetist Pud Brown also had a hand with the Rice Brothers in the song’s origin or first arrangement.

Davis said that for some time he had been enthusiastic about the song and had unsuccessfully tried to convince record companies to record it before finally making his own 1940 record of the song. Davis’s version was popular and was followed by numerous other versions, including those of Bing Crosby and Gene Autry, which made the number a big hit.

Davis played up his association with the song when running for governor, singing it at all his campaign rallies and riding on a horse named “Sunshine”. Jimmie Davis’s authorized biography, You Are My Sunshine: The Jimmie Davis Story, was published in 1987.

Maybe I should have put this to The Clash song “Should I Stay or Should I Go.” My non-Louisiana friends would love to have Bobby Jindal as VP choice and I say noooooo don’t take him yet. Let him make his mark here and then move on to Presidential material later!

“You Are My Sunshine” written by Johnny Cash rewritten by Greta as “You are our Governor”

The other night Bobby, as we lay sleeping
We dreamed you were our Governor
But when we awoke, Bobby, we weren’t sure
So we hung our heads and cried.

You are our Governor, our only Governor
You make Louisiana optimistic when politicians are corrupt
You’ll never know Bobby, how much we need you
Please don’t take our Jindal away

We’ll always need you this crazy Louisiana,
If you will only say the same.
But if you leave us and head for VP,
You’ll regret it all some day:

You are our Governor, our only Governor
You make Louisiana happy when politicians are corrupt
You’ll never know Bobby, how much we need you
Please don’t take our Jindal away

You told us once, Bobby, you would stay here
And no one else could come between.
But now you’re flirting the VP job;
You have shattered all of our dreams:

You are our Governor, our only Governor
You make us optimistic when politicians are corrupt
You’ll never know Bobby, how much we need you
Please don’t take our Jindal away

In all nightmares, Bobby, you seem to leave us
When we awake our poor heart pains.
So when you come back and make us happy
We’ll forgive you Bobby, we’ll give another politician the blame.

You are our Governor, our only Governor
You make us happy when politicians are corrupt
You’ll never know Bobby, how much we need you
Please don’t take our Jindal away