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 '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, 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.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


Drive on, 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 walk Got a little tremolo when

I talk But my letter read from Whiskey Sam
You're a walkin' talkin' miracle from Vietnam


Drive on, 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