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Joan Baez - Tomorrow Is A Long Time [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings the Bob Dylan song 'Tomorrow Is A Long Time'. This song, recorded in a 1963 Forest Hills, New York concert performance was included as a bonus track on the 2002 CD reissue of Baez' 1963 Vanguard album 'Joan Baez In Concert, Part 2'. The song lyrics are listed below with some notes on the song.

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Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Singer - Joan Baez

 If today was not a crooked highway
 If tonight I could finally stand tall
 If tomorrow wasn't such a long time
 Lonesome would mean nothing to me at all

 Only if my own true love was waiting
 If I could only hear her heart a-softly pounding
 Only if she was lying by me
 I'd lie in my bed once again

 Can't see my reflection in the water
 Can't speak the sounds that know no pain
 Can't hear the echo of my footsteps
 Don't know the sound of my own name

 Yes and only if my own true love was waiting
 If I could only hear her heart a-softly pounding
 Only if she was lying by me
 And I'd lie in my bed once again

 There's beauty in the silver singing river
 There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky
 But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty
 That I remember in my true love's eyes

 Only if my own true love was waiting
 If I could only hear her heart a-softly pounding
 Only if she was lying by me
 And I'd lie in my bed once again

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

© Bob Dylan Music Co. 

[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

"Tomorrow Is a Long Time" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. Dylan's version first  appeared on the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II compilation, released in 1971. It was subsequently included in the triple LP compilation, Masterpieces.

Dylan's officially released version of the song is a live recording from his April 12, 1963, concert at New York's Town Hall. Dylan had recorded the song in December 1962 as a demo for M. Witmark & Sons, his publishing company. This particular recording, long available as a bootleg,  was released by Columbia in 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964. A studio version of the song, an outtake from the June 1970 sessions for New Morning, has also been bootlegged. The song was featured in the first season finale of The Walking Dead.

Elvis Presley recorded the song on May 26, 1966 during a session for his album How Great Thou Art. The song originally appeared as a bonus track on the album Spinout. Dylan once said that Presley's cover of the song was "the one recording I treasure the most" and that this was his favorite cover of any of his songs.

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