Drive On

[Verse 1]
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 them 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

[Chorus]
Drive on, don’t mean nothing
My children love me , but they don’t understand
And I got a woman who knows her man
Drive on, don’t mean nothing, drive on

[Verse 2]
I remember one night, Tex and me
Rappelled in on a hot L.Z
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

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
It was a real slow walk in a real 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
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 walking talking miracle from Vietnam

[Chorus]