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