Johnny cash drive on (alt lyrics) lyrics

I got a friend named Whiskey Sam

He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam

He said is my country got 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 , and they understand

And I got a woman who knows her man

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



I remember one night, Tex and me

Walked right up on 2 V.C.

We had our 16's on rock and roll

And, we separated them from their souls

I was crazy, I was 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, don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on



Well, a mortar fell 20 feet away

And I carry shrapnel, to this day

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, I finally found out who I am,

I'm 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, don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on