I’m my own grandpa (Listen to midi)

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It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,

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oh, I'm my own grandpa !

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I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa !

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It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,

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oh, I'm my own grandpa !

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1. Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,

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I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.

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This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red,

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my father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed.

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2. This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,

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my daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.

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To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,

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I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

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3. My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,

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and so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.

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For if he was my uncle, that also made him brother

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of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

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4. My father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,

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and he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.

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My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,

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because she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

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5. Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,

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and everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild.

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For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw,

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as husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa !

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I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa !

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It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,

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oh, I'm my own grandpa !

(Willie Nelson)