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He's Got the Whole World in His Pants

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I, for one, found this book to be really funny. My husband and I were rolling on the floor with laughter reading this book. Whoever cannot find at least SOME humor in this book takes themselves and life WAY too seriously.....

I love Gavin Edwards's other books. 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, When A Man Loves A Walnut, and Deck The Halls With Buddy Holly were hilarious and had great illustrations. However, I was really disappointed with this one. The "misheard lyrics" seem much more contrived (does anyone really hear "my goat knows the bowling score" instead of "Michael, row the boat ashore?"), and the illustrations (which are the real meat and drink of these books) were not only unimaginative and badly done, but many were blatantly sexual, which I feel goes against the simple, childlike atmosphere the illustrations are supposed to create. There's nothing wrong with a blatantly sexual misheard lyric, but my problem is with the illustrations. I'd been looking for this book for a long time, so you can imagine how disappointed I was by it.

If you're looking for a book on misheard lyrics, get his other books. They are hilarious, and I love the pictures in those.

I have almost all of Edwards' books and I can read them over and over. To this day I still find humor in each entry. These books will always be an enjoyable read. Thank you Gavin Edwards!

Some people don't believe in mondegreens because (1.) they have exceedingly good hearing, and (2.) they've failed to notice that other people hear a higher ratio of noise to signal than they do. Being the unobservant gits that they are, they assume that Gavin Edwards must have made up the misheard lines collected in this book. Edwards didn't. His mondegreens are real. It's why they're so funny.

After hearing only a few of the terrible excuses for a "mondegreen", which is the technical term given by the author to describe the misheard lyrics, all of which were blatantly made up by the author because of the terrible examples given, I was astounded that this book made it to print. One horrid example is from Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Jammin'", We're jammin'-I hope you like jammin' too. His example is as follows, "Pajamas-I hope you like pajamas too". I find it hard to swallow that anyone could possibly make such a grievous error. I can't find anything funny about something so obvoiusly aimed at folks who have never heard the actual song. I hope Edwards has not made too much money on this book, as it weakens my belief in the intelligence of our country. I will end my review by saying money spent on this book would be better invested in toilet paper. I can't believe trees died for the publication of this book.

This book, no offense to the author, must have been written for simple minded folk who have little interest in music or in intellectual reading material. "He's Got the Whole World in his Pants" is one example of the mindless lyrics Edwards obviously makes up himself, as no single person in the entire world would ever mistake the lyrics of that song for something different. What a waste of time. I mean, seriously, this book is supposed to be a collection of "misheard lyrics", but I think that Gavin is the only person who could ever possibly hear them the way he presents them. Let me give another heinous example of this guy's contrived lyrics: "Michael, row the boat ashore" has been cleverly replaced by "My goat knows the bowling score." Stop insulting my intelligence Mr. Edwards, this stuff is not amusing, it's downright horrendous.