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Drive On From - American Recordings I got a friend named Whiskey Sam He was my boonie rat 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 LZ We 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 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 |