This song is about drugs, especially marijuana. A \"Toke\" is a puff from a marijuana cigarette or pipe. Tom Shipley explained: \"When we wrote 'One Toke Over the Line,' I think we were one toke over the line. I considered marijuana a sort of a sacrament... If you listen to the lyrics of that song, 'one toke' was just a metaphor. It's a song about excess. Too much of anything will probably kill you.\"
Brewer says of the song's origin: \"We wrote that one night in the dressing room of a coffee house. We were literally just entertaining ourselves. 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 had no idea that it would ever even be considered as a single, because it was just another song to us. Actually Tom and I always thought that our ballads were our forte.\" (quotes from brewerandshipley.com)
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One Toke Over The Line Capo 2 Brewer and Shipley
C C7 F C C/B Am D7 F G C
C C7 F C
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line
C/B Am D7 F G C
Sitting downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
C7
Waiting for the train that goes home, sweet Mary,
F C
hoping that the train is on time
C/B Am D7 F G C
Sitting downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
C F C
W-h-o do you lo--ve, I_hope_it's me
D F G
I've_been changing, as_you_can plainly seeee
C C7 F C
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain, and my mama said
Am D F
If_I_should choose to make it part of me,
G C
would surely strike me dead
And now I m..
C C7 F C
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line
C/B Am D7 F G C
Sitting downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
C7
Waiting for the train that goes home, sweet Mary,
F C
hoping that the train is on time
C/B Am D7 F G C
Sitting downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
C C7 F C
I sail away, a_country mile
D F G
And now I'm returning, and showing off my smile
C C7 F C
I met all the girls and I loved myself a few, and to my surprise,
Am D F G C
like everything else that I've been through, they opened up my eyes
**** And now I'm
C C7 F C
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line...
C C7 F C Am D7 F G C (Don't you know I'm just.)
C7
Waiting for the train that goes home, sweet Mary,
F C
hoping that the train is on time
C/B Am D7 F G C
Sitting downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
(I wanna be)
C C7 F C
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line...
C/B Am D7 F G C
Sitting downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
F G C
One toke, one toke over the line
