Drive On

(E) 
 
(E) (E7) 
I got a friend named Whiskey Sam 
(A) 
He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam 
(B7) 
He said is my country just a little off track 
(E) (B7) (E) 
Took ‘em twenty-five years to welcome me back 
(E) (E7) 
But, it‘s better than not coming back at all 
(A) 
Many a good man I saw fall 
(B7) 
And even now, every time I dream 
(E) (B7) (E) 
I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream 
 
| (E) 
|Drive on, it don‘t mean nothin‘ 
| (B7) (E) 
|My children love me , but they don‘t understand 
| (A) (E) 
|And I got a woman who knows her man 
| (B7) (E) 
|Drive on, don‘t mean nothin‘, 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, 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 
 
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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 
Got a little tremolo when I talk 
But my letter read from Whiskey Sam 
You‘re a walkin‘ talkin‘ miracle from Vietnam 
 
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