How Have You Been - Crosby, Stills & Nash

How Have You Been

by John Sebastian

Performed by Crosby, Stills, & Nash

on «Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' "

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

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