He said "I think my country just a little off track
My children love me, but they don't understand
Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on

And I got a little tremolo when I talk
Took 'em twenty-five years to welcome me back"
Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' drive on
I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream
Well I remember one night Tex and me rappelled in on a hot L.Z.
Drive on, it don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on
And I got a woman who knows her man
My children love me, but they don't understand
But, it's better than not coming back at all
And even now every time I dream
It was a slow walk in a sad rain and nobody tried to be John Wayne

Drive on, it don't mean nothin'
We had our 16's on rock and roll and with all that fire I was scared and cold

Many a good man I saw fall
But I got a little limp now when I walk
Drive on, it don't mean nothin'
And I got a woman who knows her man
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
I came home, but Tex did not and I can't talk about the hit he got
My children love me, but they don't understand
You're a walkin' talkin' miracle from Vietnam
But my letter read from Whiskey Sam
And I got a woman who knows her man

Drive on, it don't mean nothin'