Chords for Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line - 9/10/18

[B] _ He named us, Tom and me, [E] personally on [C] National _ _ [E] as _ subversives to American youth.
_ Yes!
[Am] _ _ [Em] _ We made the victims' [N] enemies laugh.
We're going to the Dead [F#m] of Mars.
We _ were dangerous.
We were dangerous [D#] guys.
We _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[N] wrote that song and literally didn't even take it seriously. _
We wrote to entertain ourselves and to make our friends laugh.
We never intended to even record it. _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D#m] _ Melanie and I went over it really well. _ _ _ _
Basically ran out of songs. _ _ _ _
_ _ We did, we played it, [N] and everybody liked it.
The president of the record company says, _ _
_ _ _ Oh, you guys, you get it. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So we did.
We were living in Kansas City, flying around the country,
doing shows and flying back and forth.
_ _ _ _ _ And so we did, we recorded it.
_ The next thing we know, they decided to release it as a single.
Well, in those days, _ a single couldn't be more than three minutes and ten seconds long.
So, [D#m] in the song, _ _ _ _ we had to edit out the last verse.
[G] And this wasn't in the days of digital technology where today,
you know, you just push a button and problem [F] solved.
We [D#m] literally had to cut the tape.
We had to mark it with a piece of chalk and slice it with a razor blade
and hope we got it right because [Am] we only got one shot.
[N] And if we didn't get it right, we had to re-record the entire song.
_ [F#m] So we got it right, but you could still hear a little something there.
What do [Am] _ _ _ we do, Tom?
_ [F#] _
The cymbals flash over the little clip.
You've never heard it.
And to this day, I [D#] can _ hear it too.
Now you guys probably will too next time you're [G] listening.
_ _ Well, at the same time Nixon was trying his very [N] best to ban our song, _ _
_ Lawrence Welk performed it on the water. _
_ [F#] _ He really did.
_ [G] Dale [C] and Gail sang it. _ _ _
And Mr.
Welk, conducting the champagne music makers,
_ _ _ referred to him as a modern day spiritual.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[F#] Well, it was gospel [F#m] to us. _ _ _
_ Well, we were in London at the time, so we didn't see it.
We didn't even believe it.
We'd kind of be kidding.
Lawrence Welk, _
[C] _ oh yes, he did. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So if you haven't seen it, check it out.
It's [A] called Totin' with Lawrence Welk.
_ It's ricky [G] funny.
_ And when you watch it, think about this.
_ This is _ [N] about as bizarre as our life truly is.
_ Now, _ Lawrence Welk is performing our song
_ at the same time the Grateful Dead started stealing it.
So he wasn't the only guy on the planet
_ who ever wrote a song performed _ simultaneously by Lawrence Welk and Jerry Garfield.
How do you like it?
I think [G] there are people who are already looking at that on YouTube [F#m] right now.
I think it's already had like a [D#m] million hits or something.
Anyway, we'd [Gm] like to _ _ dedicate _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ [F#m] _ it.
Back in the days when there were bees.
And the bees [G] died in the South California. _ _
_ _ _ We did name Nixon personally on that one.
_ [Gm] You remember Jerry when we asked him to play?
[N] _ What _ _ _ kind of chemistry do you _ have down in your [G] studio?
_ _ _ _ _ Well, _ _ _ we wrote the song with a string of lawns.
Do you remember?
[Cm] _ Yes, but I _ was never [G] feeling it. _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Do you love _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] me? _
_ _ _ _ [A] I've been changing _ [C] _ and you can [D] plainly see.
_ [G] _ I've known the joy and learned about the [C] pain.
And my [G] mama _ said _ [Em] if I didn't you'd be making [C] part of me.
[D] But she was trying to get it and [G] now I'm one choke over the line.
Street, [C] Jesus, one joke over [G] the line.
_ Sitting [Em] downtown in a railway [A] _ [C] station,
one [G] joke over the line.
_ Waiting for a train that goes home sweet and [C] merry,
hoping that the train [G] is on time.
_ Sitting [Em] downtown in a [A] railway [C] station,
one joke [G] over the line.
_ _ _ I've sailed _ away [C] _ _ a hundred [G] _ _
_ miles,
and [Em] now I'm [A]
returning,
_ [C] and you're on [D] my smile.
_ [G] _ I met all the girls and I love myself to [C] you,
and I'm not [G] surprised.
_ _ _ [Em] Like everything else that I've been [D] through,
it opened up my eyes,
and now [G] I'm one joke over the line.
Street, [C] Jesus, one joke [G] over the line.
_ _ Sitting [Em] downtown in a railway [A] [C] station,
one joke [G] over the line.
Waiting for a train that goes home sweet and [C] merry,
hoping that the [G] train is on time.
_ _ Sitting downtown [Em] in a railway [A] [C] station,
one [G] joke over the line.
One joke over the, _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
Waiting _ for a train that goes home sweet and [C] merry,
hoping that the [G] train is _ on time.
Seven miles [Em] an hour in a railway station,
[C] one [G] joke over the line.
I wanna be one joke over the line
_ [C] One joke over [G] the _ _ line
Down [Em] town near the [A] railway [C] station
One [G] joke over the line
Down _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] town near the [A] railway [C] station
[G] One joke over the _ _ line
Sitting [Em] downtown in a railway [A] station
[C] One [G] toe for the light, one [C] toe, one [G] toe for the light. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [E] All right, [B] I'm gonna have you in [D] here just a moment. _
Here we go, here we go.
Hey, _ everybody here is [C#] talking.
Woo!
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