Dear Little Boy of Mine is a World War I song published in 1918.

Ernest R. Ball composed the music, and J. Keirn Brennan wrote the lyrics.

[2] In December 1918, the Charles Harrison version reached the number six spot on the US song charts.

[4] The song is written in first person from the point of view of a parent, who longs for her son.

It is not made clear whether the son has simply grown up and left home, gone to war, or has died.