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DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guyis a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think they'veheard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly singwhatever you thinkyouhear. Don't deny it! You know you've sung totally absurd lyrics inplace of the real-and usually less interesting-ones. (It's nothing to ashamed of-most rock starsnever 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 thewind"-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 Springsteenproclaiming "everybody's got a hungry horse," 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guyis sure to makeyou want to get your hearing checked.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0671501283
ISBN13:9780671501280
Release Date:April 1995
Publisher:Touchstone Books
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.49 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 6.0"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Great to read together
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
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.
fun for everyone...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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!
Truly hilarious
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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.
Nobody has perfect ears..
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
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..
Mishearing lyrics has become a new hobby!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
'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.
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