Drive On
(Johnny Cash)

Well I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
He was my boony rat buddy for a year in Nam
He said 'I think my country got a little off track
It 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 nothing
My children love me but they don't understand
And I got a woman who knows her man, drive on
It don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing
Drive on

Well I remember one night, Tex and me
Grappled in on a hot LZ
We had our 16s on rock & roll
And with all of 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 nothing
My children love me but they don't understand
And I got a woman who knows her man, drive on
It don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing
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 now when I talk
But my letter read from Whiskey Sam
'You're a walking talking miracle from Vietnam, drive on'

It don't mean nothing
My children love me but they don't understand
And I got a woman who knows her man, drive on
It don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing
Drive on