Muskrat, muskrat candlelight, doin' the town and doin' it right
in the evenin', it's pretty pleasin'
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam, Do the jitterbug
Out in the muskrat land, And they shimmy, And Sammy's so skinny
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jinglin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above, It looks like muskrat love
Nibblin' on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Sammy says to Susie
"Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she says yes with her kisses
And now he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her ties
muzzle to muzzle now, anything goes, as they wiggle, and Sue starts to giggle
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jinglin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love
The Captain and Tenille performed Muskrat Love at a White House Dinner honoring Queen Elizabeth in 1976. At that time, the media ran a statement from a dinner guest who said that it was in very poor taste to sing of mating muskrats before the queen. Tony Tenille responded to the headline with "only a person with a dirty mind would see something wrong. It's a gentle Disneyesque kind of song."
