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1. I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
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   He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam
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   He said is my country just a little off track
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   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 

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R: Drive on, it don't mean nothin'
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   My children love me, but they don't understand
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   And I got a woman who knows her man
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   Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on

2. I remember one night, Tex and me
   Rappelled in on a hot L.Z.
   We had our M16'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

R: Drive on...

3. 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

R: Drive on...