Drive On (Alternate Lyrics)

I got a friend named

Whiskey Sam

He was my boonierat buddy for a year in

NamHe said is 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 dreamI 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, don't mean nothin', drive on

I remember one night,

Tex and me

Rappelled in on a hot

L.ZWe had our 16's on rock and roll

But, with all that fire,

I 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, 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, 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, but

Tex did not

And I can't talk about the hit he got

I got a little limp now when

I walkGot a little tremolo when

I talkBut my letter read from

Whiskey Sam

You're a walkin' talkin' miracle from

VietnamDrive 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, don't mean nothin', drive on