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{title:I m My Own Grandpa}
{st:Shel Silverstein}
It was m[C]any many years ago when [G7]I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow, she s as pr[C]etty as can be,
This widow had a gr[C7]own-up daughter w[F]ho had hair of red,
My f[C]ather fell in lover with her, and s[G7]oon these two were wed.
{:Chorus:}
I[C] m my own grandpa, I[F] m my own grand[Dm7]pa.
It sounds[C] silly, I know, but it [F]really is so, oh
I[C] m my [G7]own gran[C]dpa.
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.
And then to complicate the matter, though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
This bouncing baby then became a brother-in-lay to dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad,
For if he was my uncle then he also was the brother
Of the widow s grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my step-mother.
{:Chorus.}
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 although she is my wife, she s my grandmother, too.
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I am 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.
Husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa.
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# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives
# by Steve Putz
# 7 September 1992