Crosby, Stills & Nash - How Have You Been lyrics

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 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