How Have You Been Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

DHow have you beeCn my darlingG children D

While I have been Caway iGn the weDst

Thought you are straCngers I feelG as I know Dyou

by the wGay that you treat me and offer to feed me

and eagerly ask if I’ll staDy for a rest Em A7

D Now sit yourself C down in A G pile here

me

I wish I had C presents for G each of your D smiles

But I have been C traveling with G not much to D carry

Just a G broken guitar case with tape on the side a bag and a D few signs to help me

rides Em7 A7

D But here are the C beads from the G throat of a D princess

who reigned in the C years round two G hundred 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 D who

them to me Em7 A7

D And here is A C strange Euro G pean guitar D string

I found on the C floor of a G club in Marse D illes

It’s fat for the C third string and G skinny for the D fourth string

but I G kept in hopes that id use it someday it funny how people just D do things that way Em7

A7

D And here is A C turtle from the G Long Island Express D way

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 D life won’t

quite so hard Em7 A7

D How have you C been my G darling D children

While I have C been A G way in the D west

Thought you are C strangers I G feel as 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

a rest Em7 A7