I'm My Own Grandpa - David Grisman, Tony Rice, Herb Pedersen

Oh, 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 the two were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law

And changed my very life

For my daughter was my mother

'Cause she was my father’s wife

To complicate the matter

Though it really 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 became my uncle

Though it made me very sad

For if he was my uncle

Then that also made him brother

Of the widow’s grown-up daughter

Who of course is my step-mother

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I’m my own grandpa

I’m my own grandpa

It sounds funny I know

But it really is so Oh, I’m my own grandpa

My 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’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 grandma

I am my own grandpa