Johnny Cash – Drive On (Guitar)

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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]
E                               
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
[Verse 2]
E                                         
But, it's better than not comin' back at all

A                         
Many a good men 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
[Chorus]
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, Drive on

E                      B7     E
It don't mean nothin', drive on
[Verse 3]
E                 
I remember one night, Tex and me

A                 
Rappelled in on a hot L.Z.

B7 
We had our 16's on rock and roll

E                            B7         E
But with all that fire, was scared and cold
[Verse 4]
E
I was crazy and I was wild

A
And I have seen the tiger smile

B7
I spit in a bamboo viper's face

E                         B7         E
And I'd be dead, but by God's grace, Drive on, 
[Chorus]
E
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, Drive on

E                                              B7   E
It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on
[Verse 5]
E
It was a slow walk in a sad rain

A
And nobody tried to be John Wayne

B7
I came home, Tex did not

E                          B7      E
And I can't talk about the hit he got
[Verse 6]
E    
Well, I got a little limp now when I walk

 A                 
and I Got a little tremolo when I talk

B7
But I finally found out who I am

E                                  B7   E 
I'm a walkin' talkin' miracle from Vietnam, Drive on, 
[Chorus]
E
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, Drive on

E                                             B7     E
It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin', drive on