. . "For Your Boy and My Boy is a 1918 song composed by Egbert Van Alstyne, with lyrics written by Gus Kahn and published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. The song was originally performed by Al Jolson but would later go on to reach No. 4 on the top 100 US songs of 1918 with a cover by the Peerless Quartet."@en .