Compare: "O where ha' you been, Lord Randal, my son? And where ha' you been, my handsome young man?" Lord Randall, no. 12.
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Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?
— Bob Dylan
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And where have you been, my darling young one?" in the context of "Compare: "O where ha' you been, Lord Randal, my son? And where ha' you been, my handsome young man?" Lord Randall, no. 12." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Bob Dylan" (Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall)
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About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
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