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Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
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I of course know of many such lyric mis-hearings, but didn't know there was a name for it. Mondegreens are like the Jimi Hendrix lyric often heard as Excuse me while I kiss this guy when it is actually Excuse me while I kiss the Sky.
Of course I still don't know what the real lyric is for that Steve Miller tune the Joker.
I am referring of course to the pompetus of love line in the first 30 seconds of this song.