You ask me how much I need you,
Must I explain?
I need you, oh my darling,
Like roses need rain.
You ask how long I'll love you,
I'll tell you true:
Until the Twelfth of Never,
I'll still be loving you.

Hold me close,
Never let me go.
Hold me close,
Melt my heart like April snow.

I'll love you 'til the bluebells forget to bloom...
I'll love you 'til the clover has lost its perfume...
I'll love you 'til the poets run out of rhyme...

Until the Twelfth of Never,
And that's a long, long time.
Until the Twelfth of Never,
And that's a long, long time.

The Twelfth Of Never
Sung by Johnny Mathis
Peaked at # 9 in 1957
Written by Paul Francis Webster and Jerry Livingston
The melody of this song was taken from the 16th-century English folk song "I Gave My Love a Cherry" (a/k/a "The Riddle Song")

Later charted by The Chi-Lites at # 122 in 1969 as "B" side
of their "Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was"

Also charted by Donny Osmond at # 8 in
~~~~ 1973 ~~~~