I'm My Own Grandpa

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I'm My Own Grandpa

Many many years ago
when I was twenty=three
I was married to a widow who
was pretty as can be.
This widow had a growed-up daughter,
who had 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;
My daughter was my mother
'cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter
even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
of a bouncing baby boy

This little baby then became
a brother-in-law to dad.
And so he was my uncle
though it made me very sad;
for if he is my uncle
then that also makes him brother
to the widow's lovely daughter
who of course is my step-mother.

Father's wife then had a child
which kept them on the run,
And he became my grandchild,
'cause he was my daughter's son,
My wife she is my mother's mother
and it makes me blue,
because although she is my wife,
she's my grandmother too.

Now if she is my grandmother
I am her grandchild
and everytime I think of it,
it nearly drives me wild;
for now I have become
the strangest case you ever saw,
as husband to my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa.

I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa,
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so,
I'm my own grandpa.

(Reconrded on Michale Cooney's album _Pure Unsweetened Live Family Concert_)

complements of the New Song Library

--
Johanna Halbeisen                               "We are confronted by
Rebecca M. Johnson School(K-8)                   insurmountable opportunties."
Springfield, Mass
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