I'm My Own Grandpa
(Sung by Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones)
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Many, many
years ago
When I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow,
Pretty as could be.
This widow
had a grown-up daughter
With flowing hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made
my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
Now my daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To
complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little
baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he
was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up-daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's
wife then had a son,
who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is
now my mother's mother
And it makes be blue.
Because, although she is my wife
She's my grandma too.
If my wife
is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild,
And every time I think of it
It simply drives me wild.
For now I
have become
The strangest case you ever saw,
As the husband of my grandmother
I am my own grandpa!
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