Play your merriest tune and the best you can hope for is a sour smile.
Ansk-Daveska brought out his concertina and played a merry tune.
"It's great to be home," Smith answered, and went out, whistling a merry tune.
A merry tune was playing farther on, a dancing ragged melody.
He whistled a merry tune, then there was nothing.
He wanted to jump up and dance to the merry tune.
The joint filled up while he played, and our spirits danced to his merry tune.
To give everyone a merry little tune to hum: "Nice work if you can get it"?
Stone hung up and drove back to the hotel, whistling a merry tune all the way.
It made a merry tune as it came, and its voice was like the laughter he had heard from the sky.