Hard Traveling (Words: Woody Guthrie & Larry Long; Music: Woody Guthrie)

Hard Traveling

I’ve been doing some hard traveling
I thought you knowed
I’ve been doing some hard traveling
Way down the road
I’ve been doing some hard traveling
Hard rambling, hard gambling
I’ve been doing some hard traveling, Lord

I’ve been doing some hard harvesting
I thought you knowed
I’ve been doing some rough handling
Way down the road
Cut that wheat; bale that hay
Trying to make a dollar a day
I’ve been doing some hard traveling, Lord

I’ve been growing those sugar beets
I thought you knowed
Outside of Milan, Minnesota
Way down the road
Got the best crop you ever seen
But I’ve still as broke as I can be
I’ve been doing some hard traveling, Lord

I’m riding on that tractorcade
I thought you knowed
Riding that big John Deere
Way down the road
Tractor rolling, wind a-blowing
Ice and sleet; sure, been snowing
I’ve been doing some hard traveling, Lord

Driving down that interstate
I thought you knowed
With farmers from across
the United States
Way down that road
When we get done with D.C.
Gonna turn it into A.C.
I’ve been doing some hard traveling, Lord

As we go from town to town
I thought you knowed
People say, “Give them hell.”
Way down the road
“Tell the President just for me
To give you farmers parity.”
I’ve been doing some hard traveling, Lord

Music by Woody Guthrie
Words by Larry Long & Woody Guthrie

Written during the 1979 American Agriculture Movement Tractorcade to Washington D.C.

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