Crosby, Stills & Nash – How Have You Been (Guitar)

Drop B (B-F#-B-E-G#-C#) • Video Lesson
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Words and Music by John Sebastian. Crosby, Stills & Nash version is from 1991's compilation "Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin'." [Intro] B A E B [Verse 1]
     B            A       E       B
And how have you been my darling children

  B           A     E         B
While I have been away in the west?

 B             A
Though you are strangers

   E          B
I feel that I know you

        E           A            E         A
By the way that you treat me and offer to feed me

     E     A           B             F#  F#7sus4  F#
And eagerly ask if I'll stay for a rest
[Verse 2]
     B              A         E         B
And sit yourselves down in a pile here before me

  B           A            E           B
I wish I had presents for each of your smiles

    B           A
But I have been traveling

     E            B
With not much to carry

       E          A             E           A
Just a broken guitar case with tape on the sides

    E        A             B               F#  F#7sus4 F#
To hold up a few signs to help me get rides
[Verse 3]
    B          A           E       B
And here is a strange European guitar string

  B            A           E          B
I found on the floor of a club in Marselles

      B           A                 E             B
It's fat for the third string and skinny for the fourth string

      E        A             E          A
But I kept in hopes I might need it someday

      E        A            B                  F#  F#7sus4 F#
It's funny how people just keep things that way
[Verse 4]
    B         A               E            B
And here is a turtle from a Long Island Expressway

    B            A              E           B
He says that his home has been covered with tar

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

       E         A             E            A
And he says that wants to live here in your yard

    E             A               B               F#  F#7sus4 F#
At long last his short life won't be quite so hard
[Verse 5]
     B            A       E       B
And how have you been my darling children

  B           A     E         B
While I have been away in the west?

 B             A
Though you are strangers

   E          B
I feel that I know you

        E           A            E         A
By the way that you treat me and offer to feed me

     E     A           B             F#  F#7sus4  F#
And eagerly ask if I'll stay for a rest
[Outro]
     B            A       E       B
And how have you been my darling children