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- #047
- {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.
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- {c: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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- {c:Chorus.}
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- 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.
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- 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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- {c:Chorus.}
- #
- # Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives
- # by Steve Putz <putz@parc.xerox.com>
- # 7 September 1992
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