“Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?”

— Bob Dylan

Compare: "O where ha' you been, Lord Randal, my son? And where ha' you been, my handsome young man?" Lord Randall, no. 12.
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

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And where have you been, my darling young one?”