Peak
4
Weeks
17
Score
3,086
Chart Year
1964
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We'll Sing in the Sunshine" is a 1964 hit song written and recorded by Gale Garnett which reached No. 2 in Canada,[1] and No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending 17 October 1964.[2] It also enjoyed success on easy listening and country music radio stations, spending seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart[3] and No. 42 on the country chart. The Cash Box Top 100 ranked "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" at No. 1 for the week of 31 October 1964, and it also reached No. 1 in Garnett's native New Zealand that November.[4] In Australia, "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" afforded Garnett a Top Ten hit with a No. 10 peak in October 1964. Garnett's sole Top 40 hit, "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1965. The song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.
We′ll sing in the sunshine, We'll laugh every day, We′ll sing in the sunshine, Then I'll be on my way. I will never love you, The cost of love's too dear. But though I′ll never love you, I′ll stay with you one year. And we can sing in the sunshine, We'll laugh everyday, We′ll sing in the sunshine, Then I'll be on my way. I′ll sing to you each morning, I'll kiss you every night. But darlin′ don't cling to me, I'll soon be out of sight. But we can sing in the sunshine, We′ll laugh everyday, We′ll sing in the sunshine, Then I'll be on my way. My daddy he once told me, "Hey, don′t you love you any man. Just take what they may give you, And give but what you can." And you can sing in the sunshine, You'll laugh everyday, You′ll sing in the sunshine, Then be on your way. And when a year has ended, And I have gone away, You'll often speak about me, And this is what you′ll say: We sang in the sunshine, You know we laughed everyday, We sang in the sunshine, Then she went on her way.
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 8, 1964 | 95 | 31 |
| 2 | Aug 15, 1964 | 80 | 46 |
| 3 | Aug 22, 1964 | 62 | 64 |
| 4 | Aug 29, 1964 | 48 | 78 |
| 5 | Sep 5, 1964 | 24 | 102 |
| 6 | Sep 12, 1964 | 23 | 103 |
| 7 | Sep 19, 1964 | 20 | 106 |
| 8 | Sep 26, 1964 | 14 | 112 |
| 9 | Oct 3, 1964 | 9 | 117 |
| 10 | Oct 10, 1964 | 6 | 120 |
| 11 | Oct 17, 1964 | 4 | 122 |
| 12 | Oct 24, 1964 | 4 | 122 |
| 13 | Oct 31, 1964 | 4 | 122 |
| 14 | Nov 7, 1964 | 10 | 116 |
| 15 | Nov 14, 1964 | 12 | 114 |
| 16 | Nov 21, 1964 | 21 | 105 |
| 17 | Nov 28, 1964 | 37 | 89 |