Well I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
he was my boony rat buddy for a year in Nam
he said I think 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 nothing
my children love me, but they don't understand
and I got a woman who knows her man, drive on
it don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing
drive on

Now I remember one night, Tex and me
grappled in on a hot LZ
we had our 16s on rock & roll
and with all of that fire, I was scared and cold

I was crazy, and I was wild
and I have seen the tiger smile
I've spit in a bamboo viper's face
and I'd be dead but by God's grace, drive on

It don't mean nothing
my children love me, but they don't understand
and I got a woman who knows her man, drive on
it don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing
drive on

It was a slow walk in a 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

Well I get a little limp now when I walk
and I get a little tremolo when I talk
but my letter read from Whiskey Sam
you're a walking talking miracle from Vietnam, drive on

It don't mean nothing
my children love me, but they don't understand
and I got a woman who knows her man, drive on
it don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing
drive on

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