"(The) Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" was a novelty song written by Harry Warren, Al Dubin, and Johnny Mercer. In an Orientalist jazz musical style and with a Turquesque confusion of Islamic, Indian, and Western cultural motifs, it recounts the amorous adventures of the eponymous unfaithful sweetheart of an oblivious Whirling Dervish amid a number of musicians who compete for her affections. On October 28, 1938, the Midwestern jazz novelty group, The Hoosier Hot Shots, released a curtailed version of song as a single. Bette Midler sang the song in the 1991 film, For The Boys.