Autoscroll
1 Column 
Text size
Transpose 0
Tuning:
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] E E Em E E Em E [Verse 1]
EI got a friend named Whiskey Sam HAe was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam He sB7aid is my country just a little off track ETook 'em twenty-five years to B7welcome me Eback
[Verse 2]
EBut, it's better than not comin' back at all AMany a good men I saw fall B7And even now, every time I dream EI hear the men and the monkeys in the B7jungle sEcream
[Chorus]
EDrive on, it don't mean nothin' B7My children love me, but they dEon't understand AAnd I got a woman who knoEws her man, Drive on EIt don't mean nothin', B7drive oEn
[Verse 3]
EI remember one night, Tex and me ARappelled in on a hot L.Z. B7We had our 16's on rock and roll EBut with all that fire, was sB7cared and cEold
[Verse 4]
EI was crazy and I was wild AAnd I have seen the tiger smile B7I spit in a bamboo viper's face EAnd I'd be dead, but by GoB7d's grace, EDrive on,
[Chorus]
EIt don't mean nothin' B7My children love me, but tEhey don't understand AAnd I got a woman who Eknows her man, Drive on EIt don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', dB7rive Eon
[Verse 5]
EIt was a slow walk in a sad rain AAnd nobody tried to be John Wayne B7I came home, Tex did not EAnd I can't talk about the B7hit he gEot
[Verse 6]
EWell, I got a little limp now when I walk aAnd I Got a little tremolo when I talk B7But I finally found out who I am EI'm a walkin' talkin' miracle from B7VietnEam, Drive on,
[Chorus]
EIt don't mean nothin' B7My children love me, but tEhey don't understand AAnd I got a woman who kEnows her man, Drive on EIt don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', B7drive oEn