Artist: Ray Stevens
Song: I am my own grandpa
[Verse 1]
Now many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widder who was pretty as can be
This widder had a grown up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed.
[Verse 2]
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
My daughter was my mother for 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.
[Verse 3]
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
Of the widder s grown up daughter who of course was my step-mother.
[Verse 4]
Father s wife then had a son who kept him on the run
And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter s son
My wife is now my mother s mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she s my grandmother too.
[Verse 5]
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I m her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa.
[Chorus]
I m my own grand-pa. I m my own grand-pa.
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so
Oh, I m my own grand-pa.