Drive On Lyrics - American Recordings - Johnny Cash

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, it don't mean nothin' 

My children love me, but they don't understand 

And I got a woman who knows her man 

Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' 

Drive on 

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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, it don't mean nothin' 

My children love me, but they don't understand 

And I got a woman who knows her man 

Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' 

Drive on 

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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 

And I got a little tremolo when I talk 

But my letter read from Whiskey Sam 

"You're a walkin' talkin' miracle from Vietnam" 

Drive on, it don't mean nothin' 

My children love me, but they don't understand 

And I got a woman who knows her man 

Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' 

Drive on.