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