Drive On

Lyrics

I got a friend named Whiskey Sam  
He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam  
He said is my country just a little off track  
Took 'em twenty-five years to welcome me back  
But, it's better than not comin' back at all  
Many a good men I saw fall  
And even now, every time I dream  
I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream  
  
Drive on, don't mean nothin'  
My children love me, but they don't understand  
And I got a woman who knows her man  
Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on  
  
I remember on night, Tex and me  
Rappelled in on a hot L.Z.  
But we had our 16's on rock and roll  
But with all that fire, was scared and cold  
We were crazy, we were 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, don't mean nothin'  
My children love me, but they don't understand  
And I got a woman who knows her man  
Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on  
  
It was a real slow walk in a real sad rain  
And nobody tried to be John Wayne  
I came home, Tex did not  
And I can't talk about the hit he got  
I got a little limp now when I walk  
Got a little tremolo when I talk  
But my letter read from Whiskey Sam  
You're a walkin' talkin' miracle from Vietnam  
  
Drive on, don't mean nothin'  
My children love me, but they don't understand  
And I got a woman who knows her man  
Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on