I n 1971 the song was performed on the Lawrence Welk Show by a wholesome looking couple Gail Farrell and Dick Dale, who clearly had NO clue what a toke was. Some radio stations refused to play this song because of the drug references, but not everyone got this meaning. Actually Tom and I always thought that our ballads were our forte.” (quotes from ) We had no idea that it would ever even be considered as a single, because it was just another song to us. The next day we got together to do some picking and said, ‘What was that we were messing with last night?’ We remembered it, and in about an hour, we’d written ‘One Toke Over the Line.’ Just making ourselves laugh, really. We were literally just entertaining ourselves. Too much of anything will probably kill you.”īrewer says of the song’s origin: “We wrote that one night in the dressing room of a coffee house. I considered marijuana a sort of a sacrament… If you listen to the lyrics of that song, ‘one toke’ was just a metaphor. Tom Shipley explained: “When we wrote ‘One Toke Over the Line,’ I think we were one toke over the line. A “Toke” is a puff from a marijuana cigarette or pipe. This song is about drugs, especially marijuana.
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