I am my own Grandpa (poem)

[zane]

I was have five minutes off from my researching and came across this little poem, author anon, but thought I would share the complicated world of family trees! It made me chuckle

I am my own grandpa!
Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could 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.
My daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse, although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My 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
To the widow's grown-up daughter who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son, who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, 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.
If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it, it simply drives me wild.
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

[Liane Hawes]

Brilliant - Thank god my family aren't that confusing (at the moment!)

Liane

[Eric Ponton]

Wonderful-but I think my FTM would blow a fuse!!

[Guy Etchells]

Sorry but I hate it when people don't attribute properly

My own grandpa was a song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe in 1947 (published by General Music Publishing Company, Inc.) from an idea he got from reading Mark Twain.

Many artists have recorded the song including Guy Lombardo, Ray Stevens www.
youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw and Dennis Warner www.
youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk and Lonzo & Oscar www.
youtube.com/watch?v=7Y-Q9EM0G9I.

Cheers
Guy

[Jan1954]

Youtube has the poem sung by Ray Stevens - complete with genealogy chart!

http://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw

Oops! Guy beat me to it!

[Whitehouse]

Very Good

[zane]

Thanks Guy for pointing out that the above poem has a known author, the site I got it from was a collection of family tree funnies and some had the names below the poem and others like the one above didn't so I presumed that the author wasn't known, will have a look at Youtube later looking forward to seeing the one with the genealogy chart

[zane]

Just popped I am my own Grandpa into the well known search engine and yep the author pops up , should have done that earlier I guess, had a look at the Youtube video, very good, love the chart

[spison]

Loved it! I think you needed the family tree.
Jane

[mfwebb]

Here's a version with a better family tree diagram

www.
youtube.com/watch?v=qu_Y1wQ923g&feature=fvwrel

All the best,
Malcolm Webb
Lincoln UK