We'll Sing in the Sunshine

We'll Sing in the Sunshine was a 1964 song by the female New Zealand-born singer/actress Gale Garnett that reached #4 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. It also spent seven weeks atop the U.S. "Easy Listening" chart. The song was Garnett's only single to reach the Top 40. The song was covered in a very faithful version by Helen Reddy in 1978.

The song, sung in somewhat of a sad format, details how a woman is going to live with (presumably) a man for one year, then leave. The song does not say why she will only stay with him for one year, whether it's because she's going off, he's leaving, one of them is dying, or some other reason.

This song may be compared to the 1968 Merrilee Rush song, "Angel of the Morning", where a woman is talking about how her lover has to leave her in the morning, but doesn't say why, e.g. it's an illicit affair and he has to go home to his wife (or has to leave before her husband shows up) or because it was a one night stand.

Apart from the Helen Reddy version, the song was covered in 1967 by Sonny & Cher and in 1984 by Dolly Parton.