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'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics

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The title of this book was the big thing that caught me, since that's exactly what I thought Jimi was actually saying when I first heard `Purple Haze'! Small world, huh? And being someone who comes from a long line of song lyric-manglers, this book proved that I wasn't alone in this world when it came to makin' some of the words up as I went along. Heck, even to this day ma & I still argue over whether that guy's little bottle in `Love Potion Number 9' was broken by a cop or a clock! I'm going with the cop on this one, by the way. Needless to say, this little paperback was the perfect gag gift for ma on her birthday!

The only real problem I had with this book was its brevity. At most, each page has only two sets of lyrics (the incorrect version(s) above, the song & artist in the middle, & the proper words below). Because of this, I found it to be a bit pricey for the amount of content it contains. However, it does have an index at the end, which is a real plus if you're looking for a particular verse that you've been tryin' to figure out. And if it's not in this tome, you can always check the indexes of the other `...Kiss This Guy' books that have been published!

Although I agree with the thought that some of the incorrect lyrics in this book seem too far off the mark to be legitimate equivocations, I've personally experienced and have been a witness to far worse verse-mangling. So it's no real surprise to me when I read some of the more seemingly far-fetched examples!

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Do you think that you hear every song on radio perfectly? Do you think that you know every lyrics to all of your favorite songs? Well, You are about to be wrong after you open and read this book. This book contains the most outraged, hilarious, and humorous misunderstood lyrics. You can't help yourself or someone from stop laughing when you sing outloud every songs in this book..

'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, and its followup, He's Got The Whole World in His Pants (both by Gavin Edwards) had me, as well as everyone in my office, laughing so hard we couldn't speak. After you read these books, you sing the wrong lyrics on purpose when you hear the songs on the radio! You also find yourself making up wrong lyrics just for the fun of it! Edwards provide the right and wrong lyrics, as well as the name of the song and the artist(s)! For some of the songs, illustrations are included (although Edwards used a different illustrator for each book). In some cases, the illustrations are the best part of the book. My third favorite misheard lyric was: Oh, beautiful for spaceship guys instead of Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, from America the Beautiful! My favorite two lyrics are actually a little too risque to print here, but they alone are worth buying these books for.

My best friend and I picked up a copy of this book at a used book store on a lark, and afterwards, we stopped for ice cream. We brought the book in with us, and began to read. It was hysterical! It was a lot of fun to read the misheard lyrics together, and we were laughing so hard we had the attention of everyone else at the ice cream parlor. My best friend picked a guy up because of this book. Fun stuff.

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.

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)

When I came across this in the bookstore I ended up sitting on the floor, crying with laughter...the friend with me took the book away. Then HE flipped through and snorted with laughter--needless to say we each bought a copy. I've also acquired "He's Got the Whole World In His Pants" and "When a Man Loves a Walnut" and enjoy them immensely as well. These made great gifts for my younger brothers, both of whom felt "lyrically superior" to me, always made fun of my interpretations--now they understand I'm not the only one with cotton in my ears!

My friends and I used to try to figure out random song lyrics and always laughed at the weird things we thought were the correct lyrics. This very funny book (along with Edwards' subsequent editions) collects "mondegreens" from all types of popular music. Definitely a fun book to read with a group of people, and I guarantee you and your friends will be singing these wrong lyrics for the rest of the night.

I have read and sung so many lyrics in my career - and heard so many funny mis-interpretations of lyrics. My own kids "murdered" some lyrics when they were small. This book is a kick! Just sit back and relax and enjoy some chuckles at the end of the day!!

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).