You might smile

[Marthe48]

Or like me, laugh hysterically. On Lawrence Welk, this sweet down home duet sing 'One Toke Over the Line Sweet Jesus'

Lol

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[Blue Owl]

1. Wonder if anyone told Lawrence they weren't talking about Geritol in that song

[Marthe48]

2. lol

[DonaldsRump]

3. I watched him as a kid in the 70s and 80s.

He was a bit cooler than most might think of him. As an example, this blurb from his Wikipedia page noted:

Despite its staid reputation, The Lawrence Welk Show nonetheless kept up with the times and never limited itself strictly to music of the big-band era. During the 1960s and 1970s, for instance, the show incorporated material by such contemporary sources as the Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Neil Sedaka, the Everly Brothers and Paul Williams (as well as, in the most notorious example, Brewer & Shipley).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Welk

[2naSalit]

6. We watched him in the 50s and 60s...

My dad liked Sing Along With Mitch Miller too. That's where I drew the line, I couldn't deal with that for some reason.

[Harker]

4. I imagine many of his viewers figured a toke

was a standard measure of distance.

[bronxiteforever]

5. Love this. I did need the laugh!

[lastlib]

7. Saw that years ago, and immediately did a facepalm....

It takes years of training, practice, conditioning, and hard work to achieve that kind of weapons-grade stoopidity!

[Marie Marie]

8. Were we ever really this innocent and naive?

Seems like a hundred years ago. But yeah, the meaning of that song went waaaay over their heads.