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

Gavin Edwards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671501283 ISBN 13: 9780671501280

Publisher: Touchstone, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

GAVIN EDWARDS is a contributing editor to Details magazine and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Chapter 1

Clown Control to Mao Tse-Tung

David Bowie
"Space Oddity"

Ground control to Major Tom

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Purple Haze"

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

I want to rock 'n' roll all night, and part of every day

Kiss
"Rock and Roll All Nite"

I want to rock 'n' roll all night, and party every day

It's my parabola

Bobby Brown
"My Prerogative"

It's my prerogative

For he's a delicate fellow

Traditional
"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"

For he's a jolly good fellow

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm six feet four?

The Beatles
"When I'm Sixty-Four"

...when I'm sixty-four?

* Sore hand in the door
* Soy on my candy corn
* Soul from head to toe
* Boys call me Albert Gore

Beck
"Loser"

Soy un perdedor

You need Kool-Aid, baby I'm not foolin'

Led Zeppelin
"Whole Lotta Love"

You need coolin, baby I'm not foolin'

It's a hard egg

Bonnie Tyler
"It's a Heartache"

It's a heartache

I got shoes, they're made of plywood

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
"You're the One That I Want"

I got chills, they're multiplying

Sweet dreams are made of cheese

Eurythmics
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"

Sweet dreams are made of this

I do know Mike Ditka

Sinéad O'Connor
"Mandinka"

I do know Mandinka

All the boys think she's a spaz

Kim Carnes
"Bette Davis Eyes"

All the boys think she's a spy

Wake up, I might sit on you

George Harrison
"Got My Mind Set on You"

I've got my mind set on you

Text Copyright © 1995 by Gavin Edwards
Illustrations Copyright © 1995 by Christopher Kalb

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0671501283
• ISBN 13: 9780671501280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189
• Illustrator: Chris Kalb