![]() ![]() ![]() Here are some examples of zany mixed-up lyrics from 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, and some of Tampa residents' own mistakes. "There's this pop music tradition that songs should be about love and romance _ I could just as easily see people listening to a song about bologna sandwiches or hot coffee." Gavin is busy working on the follow-up book, with the working title of He's Got the Whole World in his Pants. Dont deny it You know youve sung totally absurd lyrics inplace of the real-and usually less interesting-ones. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly singwhatever you think you hear. "I think often the misheard lyric is more creative anyway," Edwards said. Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think theyveheard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. His book, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is a humorous extended confused-lyric compilation. Artist: Jimi Hendrix Song: Purple Haze Real Lyric: Scuse me, while I kiss the sky The story: Editors note: this is the singlemost commonly misheard lyric weve ever received, and is in fact the name of our new domain name Vote Now: Misheard is: Funny Not Funny My Thoughts: Story was funny. In fact, he has been fascinated with what he calls "mondegreens" _ or mistaken lyrics _ since he was 6 years old and thought the line in Row Row Row Your Boat was "life's a butter dream" instead of "life is but a dream." He began compiling these mistaken lyrics, which ran as a two-part series in Details. Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song Purple Haze. Gavin Edwards, contributing editor of Details magazine, knows all about this. A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new. ![]()
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