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"Muskrat" is a song written by Merle Travis, Tex Ann, and Harold Hensley and released by Travis on his 1947 album Folk Songs of the Hills [1] (which was reissued in 1957 as Back Home). It was covered by The Everly Brothers [ 2 ] in 1961, reaching No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 82 on the U.S. pop chart . [ 3 ]
Song of Joy is the second studio album by Captain & Tennille, released in 1976. Three out of the four singles released from the album were top-ten singles: "Muskrat Love", "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" and "Shop Around". The title track was co-written and originally performed by their A&M Records label mate Billy Preston.
America recorded "Muskrat Love" for their 1973 album Hat Trick, marking the second time America had recorded a song not written by a band member. In putting together ten songs to comprise the eventual Hat Trick album, band members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek had agreed to each contribute three compositions, with a mutually agreeable cover song being recorded as the 10th track.
The song portrays a man in love with a woman at Rosa’s Cantina, but one day he arrives and sees her being charmed by a “wild young cowboy.” They settle this complicated proprietary matter by ...
Hat Trick is the third studio album by the American folk rock trio America, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1973. [5] It peaked at number 28 on the Billboard album chart; it failed to go gold, whereas the group's first two releases had platinum sales.
The song "Muskrat Candlelight" was covered by the band America in 1973 and by Captain & Tennille in 1976, both using the title "Muskrat Love." "The Ballad of Spider John" was covered by Jimmy Buffett on his 1974 album Living & Dying in 3/4 Time .
The song is humorous in that she imagines different scenarios in which shooting a man will not make him fall in love with you, e.g. "A man may be hot/but he's not/when he's shot/oh, you can't get a man with a gun!" and "But you can't shoot a lover,/and use him for a cover/oh, you can't get a man with a gun!"
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