A Fellow on a Furlough is a

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song written by

Bobby Worth Bobby Worth (September 25, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio – July 17, 2002 in Mission Hills, California) was an American songwriter. His best known songs are "Do I Worry?", "'Til Reveille", "Tonight We Love", and "Don't You Know?". Worth was cons ...

in 1943 and published by House of Melody. The chorus states, "He's just a fellow on a furlough / Whose hopes have all come true / The girl of his furlough dream is you."Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. ''American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945''. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001, P. 401, The song is performed by

Bob Crosby George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet. He was the younge ...

in the 1944 film ''

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Bibliography

*Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. ''American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945''. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001. *Smith, Kathleen E. R. ''God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War''. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fellow on a Furlough 1943 songs Songs of World War II Songs written by Bobby Worth