Текст песни How Have You Been - 2007 Remastered Version - John Sebastian

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 now here in a pile 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 side, a bag, and a few signs
To help me get right
But here are some beads from the throat of a princess
Who reigned in the years 200 BC