"Darling Be Home Soon" is a song written by John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful for the soundtrack of the 1966 Francis Ford Coppola film You're a Big Boy Now.

Sebastian said that he wrote the song as "pleas for a partner to spend a few minutes talking before leaving.... [but] you never knew if the other person was actually there listening or was already gone".

Coppola approved the song, and it was recorded by the band but with session musician Billy LaVorgna rather than Joe Butler on drums.

After the recording was completed and the musicians left, the producer, Erik Jacobsen, discovered that an engineer had mistakenly erased Sebastian's vocal track, so he had to re-record it the next day.

[8] The Beatles regularly praised the Spoonful in interviews,[9] but when Paul McCartney reviewed the latest singles for Melody Maker in February 1967,[10] he criticized "Darling Be Home Soon" for its instrumentation, which he thought "very ordinary" and "corny".