Captain & Tennille: Muskrat Love

Remarks:

This was an actual song on the radio in North America in the 1970s. It came out in 1976, going to #1 on the Canadian pop chart, #4 in their native US. It was part of their night club act before they became famous. They even played it at the White House for Queen Elizabeth II when she visited for the Bicentennial! Henry Kissinger sat in the front row. Tennille thinks it is a Disneyesque sort of song, though it features synthesized sounds by her husband (the Captain) of muskrat sex (which plays in an endless loop at the end of the 7-inch single version).

See also:

• songs: the 1970s
• The Columbian Exchange – muskrats partook, spreading from North America to Eurasia
• Kissinger

Lyrics:

Muskrat, Muskrat, candle light
Doing the town and doing it right in the evening
It’s pretty pleasing
Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in Muskrat Land
And they shimmy… Sam is so skinny

And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singing and Jinging a Jango
Floating like the heavens above
Looks like Muskrat Love

Nibbling on bacon, chewing on cheese
Sam says to Suzie, Honey, would you please be my Mrs.
Suzie says yes with her kisses
Now he’s tickling her fancy, rubbing her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now, anything goes as they wriggle,
Sue starts to giggle

Source: Songfacts.