If lots of people send me their versions, I will not be able to put them all up, but I would like to hear them even if I can’t put them on the site. If you send me your version, either as a tape or an audio file or a MR3 file, I will try to put it up in the LOVE YOU page. I would like to put different versions of the song up on this site, now that the site has sound on it. So far it has sold about 15,000,000 copies.Įverybody makes up their own song for this book. In fact, it turned out that parents buy it for grandparents and grandparents buy it for parents and kids buy it for everybody and everybody buys it for kids.Īs a matter of fact, everybody buys it for everybody. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 30 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French). This is supposed to be a children’s book. Softly she sings to him: 'Ill love you forever Ill like you for always As long as Im living My baby youll be.' So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. I love you to the moon and to the entire universe, you are my forever, the only one I truly love. I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be. It is selling in retirement communities where kids are illegal. Loving You Is My Greatest Pleasure, But Getting Your Love In Return Is My Most Valuable Treasure. It is selling very well in retirement communities in Arizona. One day the publisher called up and said “This is very strange. My regular publisher felt that it was not really a kid’s book and I ended up doing it with another publisher. Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.įor a long time it was just a song but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead.

I love you always forever