That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 24, 2018

When Luc saw how many men there were, he saw music as his only chance to get Genevieve’s attention.

At first he was fine when they brought in the bull, but when the music started the old man now regrets taking his young date to that dinner theater.

“..and she’s buy-i ing a stair-ar-ar-way-ay, to heav-un..”

Somehow I don’t think the Strolling Violinist is going to help the Yelp review any.

Mike Pence couldn’t eat with a female seated across from him.

Unfortunately, the sequel to “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Tevye’s Cousin Irving” was a flop of epic proportions…

It was shortly after that gig that Jean-Luc Ponty decided to fire his agent.

When he said “Let’s go into the woods and fiddle around” she was expecting something else.

Old man worried that eating that pot of beans, might cause the wrong musical accompaniment, to Tony’s violin playing.

It was a tough crowd forGlazunov’s violin concerto no. 2, but Schwanda soldiered on…

Red Riding Hood stopped by on the to granma’s to see what games the men were up to.

They were seeing who could play the dirtiest song, Borat looked like a winner.

“The winner gets to feed this pot of beans to the young lady!” shouted the gray haired man.

When they told Jimmy he had to play for his supper, he hadn’t realized it was to be a two hour concert.

Seventeen verses? Let’s just check that:

1. “She’ll be coming round the mountain…”

2. “She’ll be riding six white horses…”

3. “And we’ll all go out to meet her…”

4. “She’ll be gulping Scotch and soda…”

5. “She will need to use the restroom…”

6. “She’ll be hiding from policemen…”

7. “She’ll be craving bean burritos…”

8. “She will text us from the airport…”

9. “She’ll be dressed like Sailor Venus…”

10. “She will be a bit hungover…”

11. “She will need to borrow money…”

12. “She will punch your great-grandmother…”

13. “She will pass out in the pantry…”

14. “She’ll be making vulgar gestures…”

15. “She’ll be needing penicillin…”

16. “She’ll be talking like a pirate…”

17. “She’ll be singing Broadway show tunes…”

Huh. There ARE seventeen verses. Who knew?

In the Forest: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pascal_Dagnan-Bouveret-Dans_la_for%C3%AAt-Mus%C3%A9e_des_beaux-arts_de_Nancy.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/d/dagnan/biograph.html 

http://www.classicalart.org/blog/pascal-adolphe-jean-dagnan-bouveret-1852-1929 

both have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 4 works by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/05/23?comments=visible 

has the prior, which sadly, though my comment text is there with the line breaks removed, its 22 hyperlinks remain inactive. &?@#!#%&!

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1938 (April 23, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“47 bottles of beer on the wall, 47 bottles of beer….”

His heart fired by love and inspiration, Guiseppe attempts to woo away his boss’ wife with a soft violin sonata. Failing that, he will later try murder.

at the gay farmers get-together all the guys are waiting for allice to sing her song and then leave.

Eight boys for every girl …