I'm My Own Grandpa
Lyrics by Dwight Latham
Key: C
Music by Moe Jaffe
Copyright 1947

Chords and Lyrics Provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 10/19/2018
File Edited 07/26/2019

Chorus:

   C
Oh I'm my own Grandpa
F      Dm        G7
I'm my own Grand pa
          C
It sounds funny I know
       F
But it really is so
C      G7        C
I'm my own Grand pa

Verse 1:

C                         G7
Many, many years ago when I was 23
                                 C
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be

     C           C7                F               Dm
This widow had a grown up daughter who had hair of red
   D7                               G7
My father fell in love with her and soon the two were wed

     C                             G7
This made my dad my son in law and changed my very life
                                         C
For my daughter was my mother 'cause she was my father's wife

                  C7          F                    Dm
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy
  D7                          G7
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy

   C                         G7
My little baby then became a brother in law to dad
                                 C
And so became my uncle though it made me very sad

                  C7               F             Dm
For if he were my uncle that would also made him brother
       D7                               G7
Of the widow's grown up daughter who of course is my stepmother

Chorus Repeat:

Verse 2:

C                                G7
Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run
                                   C
And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter's son

                  C7              F               Dm
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
   D7                                  G7
Be cause although she is my wife she's my Grandmother too

C                            G7
If my wife is my Grandmother then I'm her grandchild
                                 C
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild

                    C7                  F            Dm
'Cause now I have be come the strangest case you ever saw
   D7                          G7
As husband of my Grandmother I am my own Grandpa

Chorus Repeat:

C


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