Please make me strong when I ask for requests
  and they say, "Play the Beer Barrel Polka."
  Help me avoid screaming, "No, Not again!"
  Let me smile and respond, "Okey-doke-a."

  Please give me patience, Lord. Help me to laugh when
  a friend gives me Larson's cartoon
  about heaven and hell and the instruments there,
  and I've gotten nine others since noon.

  Let me like Erkel, the guy on TV
  who made all of us look imbecilic.
  Help us create a new image on earth:
  an accordion world that's idyllic.

  Let there be someone to play with panache
  on TV, who will never embarrass.
  Let him be cool, maybe Harrison Ford,
  or Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas.

  Or make him a "her," someone gorgeous and smart
  Cindy Crawford, perhaps. It depends. . .
  Maybe bunches of players, all sexy and smart,
  could be stars on a hit after "Friends!"