How Have You Been

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How have you been my darling 
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children
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While I have been away in the west
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Thought you are strangers I feel 
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as I know you
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by the way that you treat me and 
offer to feed me
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and eagerly ask if I'll stay for a 
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Now sit yourselves down in a pile 
here before me.
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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?