How Have You Been - John Sebastian

How have you been my darling children

While I have been away in the west?

Though you are strangers

I feel that I know you

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

I have been traveling

Without much to carry

Just a broken guitar case with tape on the sides

A bag and a few signs to help me get rides

Here are some beads from a throat of a princess

Who reigned in the years 'round 200 BC

Divid them and wear them

And make sure you share them

Because I want you to have them in hopes that’ll be

As lovely as the lady who gave them to me

Here is a strange European guitar string

I found on the floor of a Club in Marselles

It’s fat for the third string and too skinny for the fourth string

But I keep in hopes I may use it someday

It’s funny how people just keep things that way

Here is a turtle from a Long Island Expressway

Says that his home has been covered with tar

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

And he wants to stay here in your yard

At long his life won’t be quite so hard

How have you been my darling children?