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Opossum the Piano Man

This image shows a real opossum standing in a wood-chip lined animal enclosure, with its front paws placed on a small plastic toy xylophone, looking upward with a relaxed, almost performative expression. The text caption at the bottom quotes the opening line from Billy Joel's *Piano Man*: "Sing us a song you're the piano man", creating a wholesome joke by framing the opossum as the piano (xylophone) player performing a song.
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Sing us a song you're the piano man

Overview

This image shows a real opossum standing in a wood-chip lined animal enclosure, with its front paws placed on a small plastic toy xylophone, looking upward with a relaxed, almost performative expression. The text caption at the bottom quotes the opening line from Billy Joel's Piano Man: "Sing us a song you're the piano man", creating a wholesome joke by framing the opossum as the piano (xylophone) player performing a song.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the WholesomeMeme account on X (formerly Twitter), as noted in the source metadata. It is a viral wholesome animal meme that spread across social media platforms, leveraging the cute, accidental pose of the opossum to create a simple funny joke based on the famous song lyric.

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