| 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics | 
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Sales Rank: 110861
Category: Book
Author: Gavin Edwards
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Label: Fireside
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 189
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0671501283
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421640268
EAN: 9780671501280
ASIN: 0671501283
Publication Date: April 13, 1995
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Product Description
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think they've heard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly sing whatever you think you hear. Don't deny it! You know you've sung totally absurd lyrics in place of the real-and usually less interesting-ones. (It's nothing to ashamed of-most rock stars never took elocution classes.) Breeze through some of the world's most widely misinterpreted lyrics, including: "The ants are my friends/They're blowin' in the wind" ("The answer my friend/Is blowing' in the wind"-Bob Dylan) "Sweet dreams are made of cheese" ("Sweet dreams are made of this"-Eurythmics) "The girl with colitis goes by" ("The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"-The Beatles) Whether it's Eddie Vedder singing about "forty-five versions of a pelican" or Bruce Springsteen proclaiming "everybody's got a hungry horse," 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is sure to make you want to get your hearing checked.
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fun, fun, fun July 12, 2008
This book was a laugh a minute. I had a great time reading it. It's also a bit of a commentary on singers ability (or lack thereof!) to enunciate (that one goes out to you, Sir Elton John).
 Laugh Out Loud Funny April 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is such fun to read. i bought it when it came out (along with his other misheard lyric books) and recently read through them again. he tells you the misheard line/band or artist/song title/correct lyrics. the illustrations are wonderful and as absurd as some of these misheard lyrics.
Short, but sweet November 25, 2007
I learned very early on in life that my mother had a terrible ailment for which there was no cure - a disease called "Chronic Lyricosis." It caused her to misinterpret (and then loudly sing) lyrics to nearly ever song on the radio. And more often than not, I knew the correct lyrics, and had a nearly impossible time keeping my laughter bottled up inside, as to not incur her wrath.
So when I read about this book shortly after it was released, I had to head right to the book store to buy it. I have to agree with some of the other reviews that several of the misheard lyrics in this book are so far off the mark as to not even be believable. I even went so far as to play some of the songs, and sing along using the "wrong lyrics," and there was just no way I could imagine anyone could be THAT wrong. However, on the whole, because of my mom's "ailment," the very premise of the book made me chuckle, and a few of the lyrics made me laugh until I cried (my personal favorite is still Robert Palmer's "Might as well face it/I'm addicted to love" being heard as "My [...] will fix it/I'm addicted to love."), and once I even fell out of my chair.
It is short, as another review said, with one lyric per page, but I still had a good laugh out of it, and passed it on to friends so many times that I eventually lost track of it. Perhaps I'll buy a used copy just to have around, to remind me of my mom and her wretched case of C.L.
 Amusing enough with a couple of side splitters December 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first of Gavin Edwards' series of misheard lyrics. It's definitely funny at points and some of the lyrics are mangled beyond belief. Some of the misinterpretations are pretty well known but some seem a bit far fetched (A la "STOP THE CATBOX"/"ROCK THE CASBAH" of the Verizon commercials of late) It's interesting to note that Hendrix knew of the misheard version and at some concerts performed "Purple Haze" with the incorrect lyrics. (Avoid the second one in the series, its not very funny)
Simply E November 6, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I found most of the erroneous lyrics very funny, I also found there were a few songs that were missing.
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