Buffy Sainte-Marie - Until it's Time for You to Go

[uncatila]

the Nazis anthem sounds heartfelt to. They only killed six million not 56 million. if you listen, even if you don't understand you will hear how heartfelt it is. It would be good for you to start with literature. Reading improves the mind.

[uncatila]

anthem of free love

[CBSEye]

I think Sinatra at the end could have pulled it off when age put the "fragility" in his voice that it lacked in his youth when it was filled with bravado.

[CBSEye]

Even Elvis had to cut this beautiful song. Funny, Sinatra never got around to it. Frank you missed the boat. A lovely classic, here done by it's author to perfection.

[computerrage]

@CBSEye I don't think Sinatra had the 'fragility' to do justice to it

[uncatila]

@computerrage Sinatra represented the masculine values of permanence and loyalty not ephemeral values of celebrated by feminism and the free love generation.

[computerrage]

@uncatila He only represented the values of permanence and loyalty, unfortunately he didn't live them ...hence four marriages, numerous affairs and liaisons with prostitutes as well as his "18 karat manic depression".He didn't serve in the military in WW2 due partly to being "neurotic" and "not acceptable material from a psychiatric standpoint" He also wrote to Clyde Tolson of the FBI offering his services as an informer

[uncatila]

@computerrage I'm talking about his songs. god knows what her life looked like. in any case this song is repellent to any person that morns the fact that 40% of all children born in America come from unwed mothers. at least Sinatra tried to wed.

[computerrage]

@uncatila I don't quite follow your logic as it's about a liaison with someone who is 'attached'. Buffy is still performing and is still an activist

[uncatila]

@computerrage I am not surprised that you don't get it. those liaisons she is celebrating resulted in 56 million abortions. and 40% of children being born fatherless. What was it you said about Sinatra not being fragile enough? He at least tried to celebrate the union with a sacrament. She kills romance

[computerrage]

@uncatila I'm sorry but if you start analysing songs for their perceived ethical or moral content you're going to be very busy. If you live long enough to get through all of the songs then you could start on literature. You'll find that Buffy St. Marie writes from the heart and yet retains a strong ethical stance. In the meantime enjoy her material, there's a lot of depth there if you look

[storyboards]

ah yes wonderful song

[geesh50]

Back in the early 70s my mum bought Buffy's single, Hey Mister I Can't See you. It was a very nice song, but on the B side I found Moonshot, and I was smitten. As the old saying goes, she could sing the phone book as far as I'm concerned.

[rachmatdioso]

 god song!

[WeeWyllie]

Who could possibly dislike this? She has an odd, mesmerizing voice, and I put her in a very small set of unique singers (that also includes Dani Klein, my favorite) .

[webloafer]

First of all, this is a woman....with an angels voice. Treated badly by the liberal media in the 1960's, (research that jack) Buffy made a decision to choose family or the hollywood, madison ave. media promises. She rightly chose family. Bless you dear lady...Here I am 45+ years later still enthralled by the voice of this lady.......they treated you badly Buffy, but some of us know there has never been a voice like yours given to humans.........still love you

[darkcrawler80]

im not grew up with shit, but i grew up to loveeee itt!!!!

[SunshinexRaeXx]

As all the beautiful people have commented before me, buffys lyrics have a meaning that trancsends time! I was lucky enough to be able to watch a recent performance of hers in vernon bc, and I was brought to tears by the message of her song! May her words be remembered forever!!

[jimmydakota100]

BELLA

[premsign]

She has a kind of Edith Piaf twang. Amazing

[0TellitLikeItIs0]

hawt little chick!

[wiseOldeOwl]

SHe took my breath away singing in the Village, NYC , on a double bill with the late Flip Wilson.... that was the 60's and she sang  NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE !

[lingtonsrevenge]

This lady is something special. Thanks for posting.

[Namdor2012]

She sings it best, her heart wrote it..

[rainspirit100]

it touches my soul to know a native american has made a name for herself - we are not visable

[iamearthbornami]

LOVE you Buffy - thankyou

[raadiodaysyt]

I love Buffy. This song, I think, was influenced by Leonard Cohen. Does anyone know of the French version she does of this song?

[Songwriterbeccy30]

so beautiful

Rebecca

[Buttercup44707]

i was an oak now i;a m a willow i can bend. dont ask why. dont ask how..

my love has no beggining has no end.. love me now.. will make a space in the lives

that we planneed...... dont go.

[Scout4Me1]

Yes, I love Buffy Saint Marie. I do know this song. I have several of her albums.

[busybuzzbuzz]

IMG i can just hear Tracy Chapman doing this. Roberta FLack's version is beautiful too.

[vita9n]

I dedicate this song to Rudi Esquer who embraced me with tenderness many years ago. . . .

[tribegoddess]

Megwoiche, Keen Awenen Nisitotung. Manitoumahwhingon

[grandmamoosie]

I love Buffey but this song and only her version of it touches me more than I want to admit. She sings and interprets so beautifully and it reminds me of a love of my own which we both knew could not last. A long long lost memory of mine. Thanks you tube for letting me enjoy this beautiful song sung by the one and only Buffey Sainte Marie

[jcavalheiroj]

Great song, great composer, great singer.

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[MrEclecticity]

I believe that this was originally recorded on her 'Many A Mile' album in1965. If anyone can upload 'Broke Down Girl' from the same album I would be so grateful. I can't find it for love or money.

[22clodius]

triste mais beau

[lautay7]

I love this song!!

[TheCockroachcatcher]

You`d lose the will to live if you listened to her very often :>(

[MsTWOSPIRIT]

Isnt that a Michael Blessing AKA Michael Nesmith tune?

[safarah1]

Thank you to my parents for naming me after this woman when I was born 37 years ago. She is a talent that many people need to know of, and love.

[jadekitty9]

You're not Buffy Haley from Bisbie are you?

[butfulmuzik]

One of the most beautiful, haunting love songs ever written. It became one of my most requested songs when I did concert work during the late 60's and 70's, and has been etched into my heart forever. Buffy Sainte Marie? Elegant, brilliant and a gentle but powerful voice of conscience for Native Americans and all who cherish

human dignity. Her songs are timeless.

[westonstreets]

oh ya

[WeeWyllie]

.. a unique singer, and a very charming woman - to say nothing of her abundant talent!

[ErnstBecker]

If she had a signature song -- this is it. I can't get enough of this woman. Gangbusters !

[halg2]

@ErnstBecker: I don't know. I'm torn a bit, but I am pretty sure I like No No Keshagesh the most.

[laslohun]

great

[2boddah]

wow i can't believe ive jus discovered her ...thank spirit!! lol this reminds me of my grandma zena who died when i was 5 or so...i hope its not to late for me i want to see grandchildren too

[oldpianodude]

All of us at one time have lived these words and have loved as she did. "...I was an oak, now I am a willow and I can bend..."

[ticceljohn]

I just love this woman fantastic song and beautiful person .

[Muppet1950]

Though Buffy wrote it, I prefer Francois Hardy's version........Much more romantic.

Have you noticed the progression of the song makes it sound like a Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam song?

[hoksila1980]

Must say I always love Buffy's version, the original, by the songwriter herself. I also love the version on 'Fire and Fleet and Candlelight' which she sings in French.... Jusqu'au jour où tu partiras'. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Pick any of her albums at random and you'll find it filled with jewels.

[johnestabrooks]

fantstic, still makes me cry

[StormyWeather1000]

When I was 13, my older brother returned home after serving in the army for a few years after Vietnam, and threw this album of Buffy St. Marie's into my room. Literally threw it into my room. That's how he communicated at the time. I listened and never forgot it. Ms. St. Marie was different, even then. I know all the lyrics, even though I haven't listened to some of them in hundreds of years.

[conyelp]

Yes, this is a great song and a great singer, I haven't heard her in many years. Goin' Down To Cripple Creek I think is the last song I heard her sing. As for this song here, many singers have recorded it over the year and I like all their interpretations --Johnny Mathis, Paul Anka, Shirley Bassey, Neil Diamond and the late, great Elvis Presley with his TCB band, thanks for this upload.

[lindawaterski]

wonderful - this is her song and her voice is unique. - along with leonard cohen, bob dylan etc., whose voices may not be to everyone's taste, there is no disputing the passion, emotion

[BummelumBumBum]

grew up with her musik. Loved her voice. Moves me and makes me happy and close to my soul

[Finocchi0]

Do people realize she wrote this song.

[leesterg]

We 'Baby Boomers' are well aware of her talent as a songwriter. Back in the late 60's and early 70's Buffy toured the country and was on most major television shows to include Johnny Carson, etc.

[Sqid101]

I don't think they do. But I don't think this is her studio version, which I think is better.

[quantumdriven]

Yeah I know. It's all hers and she gets the royalties.

She got blacklisted by LBJ and the dirty stinking Jew radio fat cats.

LOL, there's some people on here that will swear Neil Diamond wrote it.

[ezesp]

wow to bring Jews ionto it? we are a minority also, and have suffered persecution from the beginning of time... we are a tribe also...

[300359alann]

that's because your tribe, didn't listen to your vengeful god Yaweh,

[comrabure]

at the start of this song i thought it was alvin the chipmunk singing haha but it's growing on me not as good as elvis's version but still great

[TSBoz]

Thumbs up on the Elvis version being better.

[comrabure]

thank you ; )

[Twisted19881]

i'm going to put up anita carter's version.. it is unbelievable

[decadentdavid]

Buffy! Only she can sing this song as it should be heard. Can't wait to see her in concert again in London in July. A truly selfless professional artiste. Love her to bits.

[TSBoz]

Way too much vibrato in her voice...she sounds like she should be a ghostly spirit...I haven't heard Neil Diamond's rendition of it yet...so far Elvis does it a whole hell of alot better. She should've invested in singing lessons...and if sh did, she should be filing a lawsuit demanding her money back. This is a beautiful song and, quite frankly, I think she totally ans utterly destroyed it.

[markdelaney]

TSBoz : Far from "destroying" the song, Buffy wrote the song herself and this is the correct and definitive version. Her singing may not be to your taste but after a career of almost 50 years, the fact she still sells might just tell you something !

[TSBoz]

The fact that she is still selling after 50 years does tell me something. It tells me there are people in this world that will buy anything. (Picaso is a perfect example of that.) I'll give her credit where credit is due...she wrote a spectacular song. Bob Dylan is a great composer too but lousy singer. It happens. Fact still remains, in my book, Elvis did a better job performing it.

[quantumdriven]

Elvis did a i-don't give-a-crap live cover on here, and his band and backup singers didn't know wtf he was doin' with it.

I tried to strum along with Buffy here, but I don't do arpeggio plectrum picking, and she seemed to be in a 3/3 time signature that threw me.

[OL8Twho]

quantum, this is how the song is supposed to sound.

[Sqid101]

She didn't destroy it: she wrote it.

[armandzraven]

Such a Great Song:)

[shikataniwatson]

How true~absolutely~

Respect & understanding

[keygain]

Will always love and respect you!

[SpiritCrazyHorse]

One of the most beautiful voices ever!

Peace N Love

[elfielvr]

Thank God and everything holy for Buffy. What an angel.

[duncandenny]

She has a web site called Cradleboard thats based in Norwayhouse in northern Manitoba Canada. She remembers her heritage.

[jeffkahl]

great to hear her version since I'm only familiar with Elvis' version. she's such a great songwriter and performer!

[rvcrvc2]

Contrary to popular belief everything Elvis covered wasn't covered with gold, jeffkahl. Neil Diamond has a better version, (than Elvis - not Buffy,) that you can find here, & Bobby Darin had a real good version that has been removed.

[jeffkahl]

cool i'll give it a look! thanks!

[sharonhitch66]

such a beautiful song. thanks for posting it.

[AVIETGAL]

I am in my 40's and am another generation of people who found Buffy so unique and amazing. She is a role model of her time that is lacking in the women of the 2000's sadly.

[9duryea9]

I truly love this woman's talents and songs and thank her for informing my youth and even still my 60+ years.

Yet, I cannot understand nor countenance her Ollie North deviance.

This seems so entirely antithetical to Universal Soldier and each of her compositions that I feel I have suffered a death in the family.

Just venting and looking for an answer...

Me

[rutebeuf2]

hmm, you'd probably have to discuss this with her. In a 1988 tv interview: Richard Secord didn't participate in buidling a wall around the President, he went in with no immunity. He got nothing but abaondonment by right wing people and more liberal people missed ti completely. People don't pay enough attention to people's contributions no matter where they come from. Even tho people come from different polar extremities-he's a general, i'm a pacifist, there is still room for common ground.

[rutebeuf2]

con't: For instance, i was attending speeches general Secord was doing and the following week I was in the campaign airplane with Jesse Jackson, and people said, how can you be just as enthusiastic in both places? there's something wrong here, but there's not, there's something right here...

The whole situation inspired the great song 'The Big Ones Get Away' (US administration). Although taking blame, North was known as the 'fall guy' for the scandal.

[loserswin783]

"Even tho people come from different polar extremities-he's a general, i'm a pacifist, there is still room for common ground."

you can't force anyone to believe it, but it's true.

it's something most people don't believe in.

just a few days ago i had to clarify to someone that despite of our contradictory opinions in several aspects of life - i like him.

i learned, once again, that it's a hard job to convince [...]

[shikataniwatson]

How true~absolutely~

Respect & understanding!

[Djfire59]

@9duryea9 j'aime beaucoup merci michel de me l'avoir fait découvrir

odile

[sirslice]

One of Canada's best musical talents.

[verbaud]

Buffy Saint Marie & Hazel Dickens: Two of the most authentically beautiful American women's voices in my lifetime.

[jasmineh112]

Buffy is Canadian.

[duncandenny]

As a 6th generation Canadian I'm very proud.

[loserswin783]

and she's at least a 100th generation canadian :-)

[miagijj]

it is indeed a good song, she has so many good ones. I almost forgot all about these songs, thank you youtube.

[kolsdalen]

I also love this one

[wellgday]

"and here you'll stay until it's time for you to go."

Could not have said it better.

[hardcandy292]

I discovered Buffy St.Marie in 1969 when I was a freshman in high school. Loved her music and when I graduated in the summer of 1973 I moved to NYC and saw her in concert at Lincoln Center. She wore star spangled bell bottoms and at the end, I was so moved, I cried on the way home. I love the things she can do with her voice, the mouth bow and her songwriting is admired by all the great ones. I just bought 5 of her CD's ! "Hey Little Bird" is just one of my favorites. I love you Buffy !

[duncandenny]

I went to university in Winnipeg in the early 60's and Buffy used to sing at the 'coffee shops' along with a lot of other people like Neil Young: really

[theeuropean]

Beautiful song from a beautiful person.

[NativeAmerican4Life]

I remember when i was about 6 and went to her live concert in Ontario Canada.

I swear it's the most beautiful performance i've ever seen, and the most lovely song i've ever heard :)

[xXjhurmelXx]

shes going to our school tomorrow..

[pierre1050]

That is cool. She is a legend.

[psychodamned]

This is such a great song !

[bingbong35]

Buffy is always delightful. Her performances are always intriguing.

[elmsol]

I really love the way she sings this song. Full of longing and emotions. Thanks for sharing.

[Canonfotografen]

She moves me like no other singer/songwriter.

It is a shame that she is almost unknown here in Norway/Europe.

I really love her way of singing and writing!

Thank you for sharing this music!

[geiroliva]

Maybe you are too young.I heard of her here in Norway for a long time and also did buy record of here here,in the early 70...Great music thats for sure

[Trambolin111]

@Canonfotografen hey I'm only 17 and will be 18 in a month and i live in germany and I did not grow up in the times you might have grown up but i can proudly say that in that world of hiphop and electro music there are still young people that enjoy that music and dont see it just as a kind of fashion but as a thing.... well i cant say it like i feel because my english isnt that good but as something bigger but i think you may know what i mean. I think no one could really explain it right :)

[brit82]

@Canonfotografen Can I use your comment in my report about Buffy?

[lizzyden]

to my special man

[Piiu88]

amazing woman! I wish I could have gone to to see her when she was in Finland!!

[squilky1951]

Wonderful

[LUNAYUMA]

この曲は、いい

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[Canonfotografen]

I do agree..? ;-)

[unoalice]

I wish I couls say I know her.

[Faroutdog]

Great song bt Buffy thanks.

[sparklingmichele]

So achingly beautiful. So perfect. Thank you Buffy for taking the words out of my mouth.

[molly1481]

Buffy is just fab thanks for posting.

[rvcrvc2]

I saw her live @ the Fillmore East around 1968 BECAUSE I was so captivated by this song

[unoalice]

She is wonderful

[NaropaMind]

True Love. Two Spirits taking the time to love when they know they must part. They could have avoided each other and missed the love.

Thanks for this post.

[lauralongplay]

one of my favorites from this artist...thank you for adding

[GOD711]

Just a great song. This was another one that never really was a hit, but it should have been. Thank you for this clip.