This song was mentioned by mgarvey on 25-Sep-2001: DRIVE ON Words and music by Johnny Cash As recorded by Johnny Cash as a single (American 7-18091, 1994) 1. Well, I got a friend named Whiskey Sam. He was my boonie-rat 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 comin' back at all. Many a good man I saw fall, And even now, ev'ry time I dream, I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream." CHORUS: Drive on; it don't mean nothin'. My children love me, but they don't understand, An' I got a woman who knows her man. Drive on; it don't mean nothin'. It don't mean nothin'; drive on. 2. Well, I remember one night, Tex and me Rappelled in on a hot LZ. We had our sixteens on rock 'n' roll, And with all o' that fire, I was scared 'n' cold. I was crazy, and I was wild, And I have seen the tiger's smile. I spit in a bamboo viper's face, And I'd be dead but by God's grace. CHORUS 3. 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. CHORUS
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