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I’m my own grandpa

Song composer: Shel Silverstein

Lyrics author: Shel Silverstein

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M	any, many years ago when	I was twenty-three,

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I was married to a widow, she's as pr	etty as can be,

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This widow had a gr	own-up daughter w	ho had hair of red,

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My f	ather fell in lover with her, and s	oon these two were wed.

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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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And then to comp	licate the matter,	though it brought me joy,

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I	soon became the father of a	bouncing baby boy.

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	I	'm my	own grand	pa,

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	I	'm my own grand	pa.

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	It sounds	funny, I k	now, but it	really is s	o, oh

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	I	'm my	own grand	pa.

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This	bouncing baby then became a	brother-in-lay 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 then he	also was the brother

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	Of the widow's grown-up daughter,	who, of course, was my step-mother.

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My	father's wife then had a son who	kept them 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	although she is my wife, she's my	grandmother, too.

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	I	'm my	own grand	pa,

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	I	'm my own grand	pa.

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	It sounds	funny, I k	now, but it	really is s	o, oh

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	I	'm my	own grand	pa.

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Now	if my wife is my grandmother,	then I am her grandchild.

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And every time 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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	Husband of my grandmother,	I'm my own grandpa.

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	I	'm my	own grand	pa,

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	I	'm my own grand	pa.

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	It sounds	funny, I k	now, but it	really is s	o, oh

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	I	'm my	own grand	pa.

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