Drive On Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays467

Drive On by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, E7, A and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			 E 
  
 E                               E7 
 I got a friend named Whiskey Sam 
           A                                 
 He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam 
    B7                                         
 He said is my country just a little off track 
          E                    B7               E 
 Took 'em twenty-five years to welcome me back   
           E                                   E7 
 But, it's better than not coming back at all   
 A                          
 Many a good man I saw fall 
 B7                               
 And even now, every time I dream 
            E                          B7             E 
 I hear the men and the monkeys in the jungle scream   
 
|        E                       
|Drive on, it don't mean nothin' 
|        B7                     E                
|My children love me , but they don't understand 
|    A                 E             
|And I got a woman who knows her man 
|                              B7    E  
|Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on 
 
 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, 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 
 
 {chorus} 
 
 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 
 
 {chorus} 
 
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