SUBLIME – Two Joints

“Smoke Two Joints” is a song originally written by The Toyes, who performed it in traditional reggae style and released it in 1983. According to The Toyes, “one fine fall day on a small island” of Oahu in Hawaii, two of the band members, Mawg and Sky, were sitting under a large banyan tree on Kuhio Beach, “tokin’ on some sweet bud & jammin’ on a rootsy reggae funky town” when they conceived the song “Smoke Two Joints.”

It was featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 American comedy-thriller film Homegrown. The Toyes version was featured in the 2005 video game NARC. The song is often mistakenly attributed to Bob Marley on the internet and file sharing websites. Marley had been dead two years when this song was written.

The punk/ska band Sublime performed a cover version on their 1992 debut album 40oz. to Freedom. “Smoke Two Joints” was one of the first Sublime songs to be played on the radio after “Date Rape”. This cover includes samples taken from the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (though this intro is typically removed when the song is played on the radio), of a bong being used, and of the artists Eazy-E and Just Ice. Bert Susanka, the lead singer of The Ziggens (a major influence on Sublime), is also sampled saying, “Smoked cigarettes ‘til the day she died!” The track is also featured on the 2003 film Grind and is on the Grind motion picture soundtrack as a somewhat shorter version. The track is also used in the film Mallrats when the contestants for a game show are passed out on the floor after being given marijuana by Jay and Silent Bob.

She was living in a single room w/ 3 other individuals, one of them was a male, and the other two, well hell the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there, and furthermore Susan I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes….. reefers

I smoke two joints in the morning I smoke two joint at night I smoke two joint in the afternoon It makes me feel all right

I smoke two joints in time of peace And two in time of war I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, And then I smoke two more

Daddy he once told me, “Son, you be hard workin’ man” And momma she once told me, “Son, you do the best you can” Then one day I meet a man, He came to me and said, “Hard work good and hard work fine, but first take care of head”

Whoa rock me to the night Ja say