"The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka" is a song made famous by country music singer Roy Clark.
Written by Vaughn Horton, the song was released in 1972 as a single to the album Roy Clark Live!.
The song was a top 10 hit on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart that October.
The song is a satirical response to television's rural purge, which saw a series of cancellations of still-popular television shows in the early 1970s (particularly the 1970–71 season), most of which either had or were perceived to have had demographically skewed audiences, in favor of shows that were thought to pull in the more desirable younger demographics, and because a new federal mandate required the networks to surrender much of their prime time to affiliates.
Both Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk were revived that fall through syndication to local stations, and were immediate successes in syndication, both going on to last over a decade longer (Welk retired in 1982, and Hee Haw continued to produce new shows until 1992).