How Have You Been Lyrics - Crosby Stills Nash

How Have You Been 

by John Sebastian 

Performed by Crosby, Stills, & Nash 

on "Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' " 

1991 

How have you been, my darling children 

While I have been away in the west 

Though you are strangers I feel like I know you 

By the way that you treat me and offer to feed me 

And eagerly ask if I 'll stay for a rest 

Now sit yourselves down in a pile here before me 

I wish I had presents for each of your smiles 

But I have been travelling without much to carry 

Just a broken guitar case with paint on the sides 

A bag and a few signs to help me get rides 

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But here are some beads from the throat of a Princess 

Who lived in the years around 200 BC 

Divide them and wear them, but make sure to share them 

'Cause I want you to have them in hopes that you'll be 

As lovely as the lady who gave them to me... 

And here is a strange European guitar string 

I found on the floor of a club in Marseilles 

It 's fat for the third string and skinny for the fourth string 

But I kept it in hopes that I 'd use it some day 

It 's funny how people just keep things that way 

And here is a turtle from the Long Island Expressway 

He says that his home has been covered with tar 

So I gave him a ride on the back of my suitcase 

And he says that he 'd like to stay here in your yard 

At long last his life won 't be quite so hard 

And how have you been, my darling children 

While I have been away in the west 

Though you are strangers I feel like I know you 

By the way that you treat me and offer to feed me 

And eagerly ask if I 'll stay for a rest 

And how have you been, my darling children