Until It 's Time for You to Go - wikipedia Until It 's Time for You to Go 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 '' Song by Buffy Sainte - Marie from the album Many a Mile Released 1965 Songwriter ( s ) Buffy Sainte - Marie `` 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. It was a UK Top 20 hit for British group The Four Pennies in 1965, and for Elvis Presley in 1972, and a US Hot 100 single for Neil Diamond in 1970 and New Birth featuring future Supremes member Susaye Greene in 1973. Andy Williams released a version in 1972 on his album, Love Theme from `` The Godfather ''. Buffy 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 lyrics concern an ordinary man and woman who love each other, but can not stay together because they come from different worlds. The singer asks her ( or his ) lover : `` Do n't ask why / Do n't ask how / Do n'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 could n't stay with me. '' Besides The Four Pennies, Diamond and Presley, it has been covered by Paul Anka, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Emilie - Claire Barlow, Shirley Bassey, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Glen Campbell, Vikki Carr, Anita Carter, Cher, Jim Croce, Bobby Darin, Bette Davis, Ken Dodd, Roberta Flack, Robert Goulet, Françoise Hardy, Cleo Laine, Pierre Lalonde ( in French ), Claudine Longet, Joe Longthorne, Vera Lynn, Johnny Mathis, Willie Nelson, Michael Nesmith, New Birth, Helen Reddy, Nancy Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Grover Washington, Jr., Evie Sands, Dottie West, and Andy Williams. References Jump up ^ Roberts, David ( 2006 ). British Hit Singles & Albums ( 19th ed. ). London : Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 1 - 904994 - 10 - 5. Jump up ^ Until It 's Time for You to Go, Buffy Sainte - Marie website. Buffy Sainte - Marie Studio albums It 's My Way ! ( 1964 ) Many a Mile ( 1965 ) Little Wheel Spin and Spin ( 1966 ) Fire & Fleet & Candlelight ( 1967 ) I 'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again ( 1968 ) Illuminations ( 1969 ) She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina ( 1971 ) Moonshot ( 1972 ) Quiet Places ( 1973 ) Buffy ( 1974 ) Changing Woman ( 1975 ) Sweet America ( 1976 ) Coincidence and Likely Stories ( 1992 ) Running for the Drum ( 2009 ) Power in the Blood ( 2015 ) Medicine Songs ( 2017 ) Compilations The Best of Buffy Sainte - Marie ( 1970 ) The Best of Buffy Sainte - Marie Vol. 2 ( 1971 ) Native North American Child : An Odyssey ( 1974 ) The Best of the Vanguard Years ( 2003 ) Songs `` Universal Soldier '' `` Now That the Buffalo 's Gone '' `` Until It 's Time for You to Go '' `` Cod'ine '' `` My Country ' Tis of Thy People You 're Dying '' `` Mister Ca n't You See '' `` Up Where We Belong '' Related Soldier Blue Sesame Street Jack Nitzsche Vanguard Records First Nations music Margaret Whiting Albums Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Broadway, Right Now ! 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Question: who wrote the song until it time for you to go
Answer: Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie