how have you been Chords

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[Verse 1]
[D]How have you been, my darling children
While I have been away in the
West?
Though you are strangers
[C]I f[D]eel like I know you
By the [G]way that you treat me and offered to feed
me and eagerly ask if I'll [D]stay for a [A]rest
Now [D]sit yourselves down
[C]in [D]a pile here before me
I wish I had present[C]s for
[G]each of your smi[D]les
But I have been trav[C]eling
[D]without much to carry
Just a [G]broken guitar case
with tape on the side
A bag and a few signs to
[D]help me get [A]right
But [D]here are some [C]beads [D]from
the [G]throat of [D]a princess
Who reigned in the [C]years round [D]200
[G]B .[D]C.
Divide them and [C]wear them and
[G]make sure to [D]share them
Cause I [G]want you to have them in hopes that you'll
be as lovely as the lady who [D]gave them to [A]me
And [D]here is a [C]strange
[G]European [D]guitar string I found
on the [C]floor of a [G]club in
Mar[D]seille
It's fat for the [C]third string and
[G]skinny for the [D]fourth string
But I [G]kept it in hopes that
I'd use it someday
It's funny how people just
[D]keep things that [A]way
And [D]here is a [C]turtle [G]from the
Long
Island
[D]Expressway
He says that his [C]home has
been [G]covered with [D]tar
So I gave him a [C]ride on the
[G]back of my [D]suitcase
And he [G]says that he'd like
to stay here in your yard
At long last his life won't
be [D]quite so [A]hard
[D]How have you [C]been, my [G]darling [D]children
While I have [C]been [G]away in the [D]west
Though you are [C]strangers,
I [G]feel like I [D]know you
By the [G]way that you treat me
and offer to feed me
And eagerly ask if I'll [D]stay for rest
By the [G]way that you treat me
and offer to feed me
And eagerly ask if I'll [D]stay for rest

[Outro 1]
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