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In 1962, a 21 year old folksinger/songwriter by the name of Bob Dylan wrote a beautiful love song to his beautiful girl friend Suze Rotolo.
The album cover (rel 1963) "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" showed Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking down Jones Street together in Greenwich Village.

For some reason, Bob's love song "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" did not make the album cut, but when he sang it at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village,
Canadian folksingers Ian & Sylvia liked it so much, they asked Bob Dylan if they could record it.

Bob jokingly told them it would cost a couple of cigarettes.

Ian Tyson gladly gave Bob Dylan a whole pack of Belvedere Cigarettes and the deal was done:

There's beauty in the silver singing river,
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky,
But none of this and nothing else can match the beauty,
That I remember in my true love's eyes.
- Bob Dylan

(I think Suze Rotolo had gone to Italy)

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re: "Tomorrow Is A Long Time"

In back of their second album (liner notes) for Vanguard Records (1963) "Four Strong Winds" ~ Ian & Sylvia says:

"Bob Dylan can write a fine, tender love song when he has a mind to. And this is one of his best."