Drive On Lyrics

Well I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam
He said "I think my country just 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

Well I remember one night Tex and me rappelled in on a hot L.Z.
We had our 16'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

Johnny Cash - American Recordings

Nov 2007

1. Delia's Gone
2. Let The Train Blow The Whistle
3. The Beast In Me
4. Drive On
5. Why Me Lord
6. Thirteen
7. Oh, Bury Me Not
8. Bird On A Wire
9. Tennessee Stud
10. Down There By The Train
11. Redemption
12. Like A Soldier
13. The Man Who Couldn't Cry