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

by Gavin Edwards (Author), Chris Kalb (Illustrator) "My first misheard lyric came at the advanced age of six, when I learned to sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat..." (more)
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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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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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Product Details

• Paperback: 189 pages
• Publisher: Fireside (April 13, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671501283
• ISBN-13: 978-0671501280
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #129,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nobody has perfect ears.., August 11, 1998

By A Customer

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..

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great to read together, June 9, 2005

By	La Luna Lupe "Grim" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

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.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mishearing lyrics has become a new hobby!, December 31, 1996

By A Customer

'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.