A return to “tomorrow is a long time” as the covers keep rolling on

By Tony Attwood

When we published our index of Dylan covers with links to the songs I simply ignored the fact of how incomplete it was, and happily moved on to whatever else was on my mind.  But now coming back to that entry it does seem horribly incomplete.

So I started thinking of doing ot all over again – and may be I will – but I would like to help and I need to think how to do it.    However I can at least kick the can down the road (or whatever the saying is) by facing up to “Tomorrow Is a Long Time” for no reason other that I was thinking about the song today as I am edging my way toward a birthday which seems to make me feel very old.

Anyway that birthday is still a long way off, so I have time to think about “Tomorrow is a long time” and ponder whether to do another index of covers of Dylan songs, updated from the one done years ago.  Here we go

The sudden chord change from the original took me by surprise in that version above.   But there are no surprises below – I think the “Brothers Four” recorded this as a song they could do, and which they probably felt most of their listeners might not know.

And so I move on and came to Judy Collins, whose recordings I normally adore, but somehow, perhaps because I know the song so well, it doesn’t work for me in her version
I can’t get the link to pop up automatically but hopefully if you click here 
you should get her version.   Or if that fails try this Tomorrow Is a Long Time which with a bit of luck could also give you the lyrics at Read the lyrics
Of course with beautiful songs there is always the temptation for orchestrators to take over and give us a musical accompaniment that is supposed to represent the lyrics.   For me it rarely works, but arrangers and singers do go on with it.   (I don’t like the chord change at “lie in my bed once again” either).    This is the Glen Yarbrough version – and if that link does not work, try https://youtu.be/ZfVSzXWKP78
 
Somehow artists almost want to turn this into a religious piece, which I don’t think it is at all…   Here are the Brothers Four…. followed by Judy Collins….
And then moving on….


Arbouretum was technically a folk-rock band, but they went off in other directions as I have noted before….So move on just in case you are still with me and want some more….

But in the end I always have to come back to the master.

 

 

 

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