{"id":62,"date":"2021-05-10T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:30:32","slug":"aint-no-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/aint-no-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t No Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">by Bill Whithers &#8211; Key of D\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea48a71989d5007507272' value='69ea48a71989d5007507272'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea48a71989d5007507272' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea48a71989d5007507272' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea48a71989d5007507272' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea48a71989d5007507272' ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">There is no introduction on this song, as the vocals come in right away. This was thought of as bad for marketing purposes, as it meant disc jockeys couldn&#8217;t talk it up, but it gave the song a more interesting structure. Withers&#8217; label Sussex Records gave him plenty of artistic freedom, which he lost when Sussex folded and he moved to Columbia. In the 2009 documentary Still Bill, Withers explains, &#8220;If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/chords\/G\/CH minor.jpg\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">It&#8217;s not warm when she&#8217;s away <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-gm.jpg\" width=\"70\" height=\"119\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Am]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">And she&#8217;s always gone too long <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Gm]\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nAnytime she goes away<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Wonder this time where she&#8217;s gone <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Wonder if she&#8217;s gone to stay <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone [Am]\u00a0\u00a0 And this house just ain&#8217;t no home<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [Gm]<\/span>\u00a0 Anytime she goes away<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">And I know, I know, I know, I know,\u00a0 I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know\u00a0 ETC<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">I oughtta leave young thing alone<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">But ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Only darkness every day<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Am]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">And this house just ain&#8217;t no home<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [Gm]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Anytime she goes away.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0 [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Anytime she goes away.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> [ Dm Am Dm ]<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Anytime she goes away.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm]<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bill Whithers &#8211; Key of D\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone [ Dm Am Dm ] It&#8217;s not warm when she&#8217;s away [ Dm Am Dm ] Ain&#8217;t no sunshine when she&#8217;s gone [Am] And she&#8217;s always gone too long [Gm]\u00a0 Anytime she goes away [ Dm Am &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/aint-no-sunshine\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ain&#8217;t No Sunshine<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,133,126,214,116,117,68,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-bill-withers","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-rainy-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29880,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/29880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}