Kiss the Boys Good-Bye

DESCRIPTION: "Corporal may I stay out late? It's getting near our posting date, Please let a poor WAAF celebrate, To kiss the boys goodbye." The girl wants an easier life. They volunteered, after all: "If it wasn't for the war, We'd be where we were before"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: soldier clothes money derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 148, "Kiss the Boys Goodbye" (1 text, tune referenced)
NOTES [117 words]: The original of this song was also called "Kiss the Boys Goodbye." The words are by Frank Loesser and the music by Victor Schertzinger. The first verse clearly inspired the opening of this song:
So, Daddy, let me stay out late
For tomorrow is our wedding date
Let the baby kinda celebrate
Kiss the boys goodbye.
It was used in a 1941 movie of the same name starring Mary Martin and Don Ameche.
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 456, estimates that the song (recorded by Martin, by Bea Wain and by Tommy Dorsey and Connie Haines) was the eleventh-most popular song in America in September 1941. - RBW
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File: WJL148

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