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 them 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 nothing
My children love me , but they don´t understand
And I got a woman who knows her man
Drive on, don´t mean nothing, 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 nothing
My children love me , but they don´t understand
And I got a woman who knows her man
Drive on, don´t mean nothing, 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 walking talking miracle from Vietnam

Drive on, don´t mean nothing
My children love me , but they don´t understand
And I got a woman who knows her man

Drive on, don´t mean nothing, drive on