[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 them twenty-five years to welcome me back

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
But drive on, it don't mean nothing
My children love me and they understand
And I got a woman that loves her man, drive on
It don't mean nothing, it don't mеan nothing, drive on

[Verse 3]
I remembеr one night, Tex and me
Walked right up on two VC
But we had our 16's on rock and roll
And we separated them from their souls

[Verse 4]
Well were crazy and 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
[Chorus]
Drive on, it don't mean nothing
My children love me and they understand
And I got a woman that loves her man, drive on
It don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing, drive on

[Verse 5]
Well a mortar fell twenty feet away
And I carry shrapnel till this day
I came home but Tex did not
And I can't talk about the hit he got

[Verse 6]
But 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 walking, talking miracle from Vietnam

[Chorus]
Drive on, it don't mean nothing
My children love me and they understand
And I got a woman that loves her man, drive on
It don't mean nothing, it don't mean nothing, drive on