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Song
Drive on
This is the version from when he performed this song at the Manhattan centre in 1994
Chords for this song
E Em A B7 B7 2nd inversion
E|-0--0---0---2--2--| B|-0--0---2---0--0--| G|-1--0---2---2--2--| D|-2--2---2---1--1--| A|-2--2---0---2--0--| E|-0--0----------2--|
Picking / Strumming style simple version only down strumming
E chord; between verses B7 chord into the E chord
E|--0-0--0--0--0---------|----2----2----2----2-----0---------| B|--0-0--0--0--0---------|----0----0----0----0-----0---------| G|--1-1--1--0--1---------|----2----2----2----2-----1---------| D|--2-2--2--2--2---------|----1----1----1----1-----2---------| A|--2-2--2--2--2---------|--2------0--2------0---2-----------| E|--0-0--0--0--0---------|-------2---------2-----------------|
Intro
Verse 1
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
Verse 2
But, it's better than not comin' back at all
Many a good men I saw fall
And even now, every time I dream
I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream
Chorus
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', drive on
Verse 3
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
Verse 4
I was crazy and 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,
Chorus
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
Verse 5
It was a slow walk in a sad rain
And nobody tried to be John Wayne
I came home, Tex did not
And I can't talk about the hit he got
Verse 6
Well, I got a little limp now when I walk
and I 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,
Chorus
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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