Bob Miller (September 20, 1895 – August 26, 1955) was an American songwriter, recording artist, A&R representative, and publisher.

[2] His career began in the 1920s, during which time he likely travelled back and forth between Memphis and New York in order to establish himself as a songwriter.

[7] Over the course of his career, he wrote songs such as "Sweet Pal," "War Horse Mama," "Twenty-One Years," "Eleven Cent Cotton, Forty Cent Meat," "The Poor, Forgotten Man," "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere," "Seven Years With the Wrong Woman," and many others.

In 1922, he became the bandleader aboard the Idlewild, a Mississippi River steamship that offered evening and weekend excursions featuring music and dancing.

Some of his songs like "Sweet Pal" were typical to the popular music of the time period, but the majority of his early work was in the blues genre.

He co-wrote this song with a Memphis woman named Emma Dermer, and it was based on a couple of poems that circulated the South between 1926 and 1927.

[20] Miller played a significant role in the commercial "hillbilly" music industry based out of New York.

Amazingly, eighty-five percent of these recordings were produced by six artists—Vernon Dalhart, Carson Robison, Arthur Fields, Bob Miller, Frankie Marvin, and Frank Luther.

From the late 1930s until his death in 1955, Miller continued to write songs, but the majority of his efforts centered around his publishing business.