"If You Are But a Dream" is a popular song published in 1942 with words and music by Moe Jaffe, Jack Fulton and Nat Bonx.
The melody is based on Anton Rubinstein's "Romance in E flat, Op.
[3] A year later, in 1945, "If You Are But a Dream" was included in the Academy Award-winning short film, The House I Live In, in which Sinatra was featured.
Both the Columbia and Capitol versions have subsequently been reissued on a number of CDs.
It was written by Al Kasha and Hank Hunter and was called "Forever and a Day".