i've been having some hard travelling, i thought you'd knowed. i've been having some hard travelling, way down the road. i've been having some hard travelling, hard rambling, hard gambling. i've been having some hard travelling, oh yeah. i've been riding in beat up vans, i thought you'd knowed. i've been riding that life line, way down the road. i've been beat and i've been nabbed, and i just missed getting stabbed. i've been having some hard travelling, oh yeah. i've been hitting some hard rock mining, i thought you'd knowed. i've been leaning on a pressure drill, way down below. hammer flying, air hose sucking, 6 foot of mud and sure been muckin'. i've been hitting some hard travelling, oh yeah. i've been hitting some hard picking, i thought you'd knowed. wenatchee to abbotsford, way down the road. picking that fruit, barely gettin' paid, the sun gets hotter every day. and i've been having some hard travelling, oh yeah. i've been working in trail, bc. i thought you'd knowed. i've been dumping that white hot zinc way down the road. i've been sweatin' til i'm almost dead, i been pouring that silvery lead. i've been having some hard travelling, oh yeah. i've been locked up in jail, i thought you'd knowed. i've been laying out 90 days, way down the road. i got hit by the boys in blue, they said i had it comin' too. i've been having some hard travelling, oh yeah.