For the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know
That God is one
Oh, the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep." - Meaning and context.">

Ring them bells Sweet Martha
For the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know
That God is one
Oh, the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep.

— Bob Dylan

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Ring them bells Sweet Martha
For the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know
That God is one
Oh, the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bob Dylan

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".