I'm My Own Grandpa

Oh I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own granpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so

Oh 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 grown-up daughter who had hair of red

My father fell in love with her and soon they too 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

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 br'ther

Of the widow's grown-up daughter who was also my stepmother

Oh I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own granpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so

Oh I'm my own grandpa

Father's wife then had a son who kept them 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 altho' she is my wife she's my grandmother too

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 I ever saw

As husband of my grandmother I am my own grandpa

Oh I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own granpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so

Oh I'm my own grandpa