Be my penguin…

I’ll be your penguin!

This song so beautifully sung by Raul Malo, totally straight, was written by his Mavericks band-mate, Robert Reynolds. The melody is so sweet, and the lyric is an absolute joy – here are a few choice lines –

I fancy your feathers so smooth and so sleek the way snowflakes dance on the down of your cheek

The curve of your beak makes my flippers go weak

My siblings will sing you a symphony

I I’ll catch you an anchovy, darling why can’t you be my sweet penguin/

At night by the light of the southern aurora  we’ll navigate north toward Bora Bora

While you eat the fauna and I eat the flora

I’ll carve you a castle inside an ice floe

How could you say no, is your heart made of snow?

I could listen to it over and over again, it really is one of the sweetest love songs I’ve ever heard!