Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 14, 1995                   TAG: 9507140043
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: NANCY GLEINER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO MY SONG

Is a citrus product really part of our national anthem? And did melons roam the wild West, as in ``Where the deer and the canteloupe play'' from ``Home On the Range''?

They did in ```Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy,'' a collection of lyrics people think they've heard (and may have embarrassed themselves by repeating), gathered by Gavin Edwards, associate editor of Details magazine.

Notable inclusions (with the correct lyric in parentheses):

``They sent you a tie clasp'' (``They said you was high class''), Elvis Presley, ``Hound Dog.''

``The girl with colitis goes by'' (``The girl with kaleidoscope eyes''), The Beatles, ``Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.''

``Looks like tomatoes'' (``Looks Like We Made It''), Barry Manilow, song title.

``Doughnuts make my brown eyes blue'' (``Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue''), Crystal Gayle, song title.

``Clown control to Mao Tse-Tung'' (``Ground control to Major Tom''), David Bowie, ``Space Oddity.''

``The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind'' (``The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind''), Bob Dylan, ``Blowin' In the Wind.''

``There's a bathroom on the right'' (``There's a bad moon on the rise''), Creedence Clearwater Revival, ``Bad Moon Rising.''

The book's title, incidentally, is a mutation of Jimi Hendrix's ```Scuse me while I kiss the sky.''