"Squeeze Box" is a song by the British rock band the Who from their album The Who by Numbers.

Unlike many of the band's other hits, the song features country-like elements, as heard in Townshend's banjo picking.

[5] In the planned performance of the song, the members of the band were to be surrounded by 100 topless women playing accordions.

Authors Steve Grantley and Alan Parker compared this early version to The Beatles' 1968 song, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".

Although Pete Townshend later said that the song originated as a dirty joke, he said that there was no double entendre, claiming "It's not about a woman's breasts, vaginal walls, or anything else of the ilk.

'"[6] Lead singer Roger Daltrey, however, acknowledged the double meaning, saying, "There's nothing wrong with a bit of 'in-and-out,' mate!

[6]Record World said that "the group gives a display of their tremendous creative powers; a lilting rocker with all the immediacy of a 'Happy Jack.

'"[9] PopMatters critic David Pike rated it one of the "41 essential pop/rock songs with accordion.

"[8] The song is written in three stanzas using the same closing refrain of "Mama's got a squeeze box/ Daddy never sleeps at night".

The first stanza is relatively ambiguous and introduces the main rhythm and beat of the song followed by the first instance of the refrain.

The second stanza becomes more explicit with the romantic couple ignoring their pets and even their children when their nighttime activity commences stating, "'Cause she's playing all night", followed by the refrain.

The third stanza becomes relatively undisguised in its use of metaphor referring to the couple's romantic activity as "in and out and in and out", followed by the closing instance of the refrain.

[6] The song was first performed live at the New Bingley Hall in Stafford on 3 October 1975, and remained in the set for the rest of the 1975–1976 tour, until drummer Keith Moon's final North American concert at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on 21 October 1976.

Poison in collaboration with Charlo recorded a version of the song and released it as a promo single[16] from the album Hollyweird in March 2002.