Until It's Time for You to Go

"Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. Sainte-Marie included a French language reworking of the song, "T'es pas un autre", on her 1967 album Fire & Fleet & Candlelight. French translation was made by Quebecer songwriter Claude Gauthier.

This article is about the song by Buffy Sainte-Marie. For the album by Rusty Bryant, see Until It's Time for You to Go (album).
"Until It's Time for You to Go"
Single by Buffy Sainte-Marie
from the album Many a Mile
B-side"The Flower and the Apple Tree"
Released1965
LabelVanguard
Songwriter(s)Buffy Sainte-Marie
Producer(s)Maynard Solomon

Background

The lyrics concern an ordinary man and woman who love each other, but cannot stay together because they come from different worlds. The singer asks her (or, when sung by a man, his) lover: "Don't ask why / Don't ask how / Don't ask forever / Love me now." According to Sainte-Marie, the song "popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me."[1]

"The Flower and the Apple Tree"

Featured as a B-side to the Sainte-Marie's single release of "Until It's Time for You to Go" is the rarity "The Flower and the Apple Tree", an original song that was exclusive to the single.[2]

Notable cover versions

References
  1. Until It's Time for You to Go, Buffy Sainte-Marie website.
  2. "Buffy Sainte-Marie With Gershon Kingsley And His Chorus & Orchestra* - Until It's Time For You To Go". Discogs. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  3. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 78.
  5. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 196.
  6. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 427.
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