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 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