Drive On

Well, I got a friend named Whiskey Sam He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam He said, "I think my country got a little off track" "Took 'em twenty-five years to welcome me back" But, it's better than not coming back at all Many a good man I saw fall And even now, every time I dream I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream Drive on, it don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' Drive on What I remember one night, Tex and me Rappelled in on a hot L.Z. We had our sixteen's on rock and roll And with all that fire, I was scared and cold I was crazy, and I was wild And I have seen the tiger smile I spit in a bamboo viper's face And I'd be dead, but by God's grace Drive on, it don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' Drive on It was a slow walk in a sad rain And nobody tried to be John Wayne I came home, but Tex did not And I can't talk about the hit he got But I got a little limp now when I walk And I got a little tremolo when I talk But my letter read from Whiskey Sam "You're a walkin' talkin' miracle from Vietnam" Drive on, it don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' Drive on