That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 25, 2025

/// He’s been threatened by “sweet” little Carol:

Serenade– or she’ll steal his apparel.

She is strong and she’s crude,

so she would strip him nude.

She has got that boy over a barrel.

After the third time he played Lady of Spain, his body was never found.

Looks like he also played “Roll out the barrel”.

“This is not what I thought you meant when you said you wanted to do a little squeezing by the seashore.”

Jon Arbuckle, the early years.

Weird Al, the early years.

“I can’t play this thing but if I press these buttons and pull really slow it sounds just like aunt Bessie when she had pneumonia.”

Pete Townsend?

Lawrence Welk the early years, practicing the Beer Barrel Polka.

“I swear, if I hear your cover of Squeeze Box one more time, I will drown you!”

If you play “Beer Barrel Polka” one more time, I will stuff you in it and push it into the river.

“When l asked you to play something appropriate, Dudley – l wasn’t thinking of Roll Out The Barrel!"

Moments before the inspiration for “Roll Out the Barrel”

Young Jaromír Vejvoda would rather be hugging his sweetheart, Rosamunde, than squeezing his concertina.

“I have to practice! They won’t give me a gondola license until I can play O Solo Mio perfectly!”

I don’t play the accordion. What’s my excuse?

Johnny was kicked out of school for the day, he thought, “Don’t play with your instrument in class.” meant something completely different.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

Please stop. It’s bad enough that Momma plays that squeezebox all night and Daddy never gets no rest.

Accordion to the artist, no concertinas were harmed during the painting of this picture. However, many music lovers with sensitive hearing were grievously offended!

“My bagpipes are in the shop, so I’ll have to serenade you with this.”

A kid on a concertina.? Or young Jan Sibelius, working out the theme of “Finlandia”?

Would it be too extremely extreme/

To suggest that a boy with a dream/

Would write music titanic/

(And somewhat Germanic) ?

Things ain’t always what they seem…