| Until It's Time for You to Go | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| Album: | Many a Mile |
| B-Side: | "The Flower and the Apple Tree" |
| Released: | 1965 |
| Label: | Vanguard |
| Producer: | Maynard Solomon |
| Until It's Time for You to Go | |
| Cover: | Elvis_Until_Its_Time_For_You_To_Go_PS.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Elvis Presley |
| Album: | Elvis Now |
| B-Side: | We Can Make the Morning |
| Released: | January 4, 1972 |
| Recorded: | May 16, 1971 |
| Studio: | RCA Studio B, Nashville |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Label: | RCA Victor |
| Prev Title: | Merry Christmas Baby |
| Prev Title2: | O Come, All Ye Faithful |
| Prev Year: | 1971 |
| Title2: | We Can Make the Morning |
| Next Title: | He Touched Me |
| Next Title2: | Bosom of Abraham |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
"Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by American 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.
The song has been recorded by many other singers.[1]
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 their 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."[2]
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.[3]