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<\/a>You\u2019ll need a pad and pencil to work out all the genealogy connections in this funny ballad loaded with connections on the old family tree. The song lyrics to \u201cI\u2019m My Own Grandpa\u201d are below for reference.<\/p>\n
Many, many years ago when I was 23<\/p>\n
I was married to a widder who was pretty as could be<\/p>\n
The widder had a grown up daughter who had a hair of red<\/p>\n
My father fell in love with her and soon they were wed<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This made my dad my son in law, which changed my very life<\/p>\n
For my daughter was my mother in law, she was my father’s wife<\/p>\n
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy<\/p>\n
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
It sounds funny, I know,<\/p>\n
but it really is so<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My little baby then became a brother in law to dad<\/p>\n
And so became my uncle though it made me very sad<\/p>\n
For if he was my uncle then that also made him the brother<\/p>\n
Of the widder\u2019s grown up daughter who of course was my step mother<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My father\u2019s wife then had a son, that kept them on the run<\/p>\n
and he became my grandchild for he was my daughter\u2019s son<\/p>\n
My wife is now my mother\u2019s mother and it makes me blue<\/p>\n
Because although she is my wife, she\u2019s my grandmother too<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
It sounds funny, I know,<\/p>\n
but it really is so<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Oh if my wife is my grandmother then I\u2019m her grandchild<\/p>\n
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild<\/p>\n
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw<\/p>\n
As husband of my own grandmother, I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p>\n
It sounds funny, I know,<\/p>\n
but it really is so<\/p>\n
I\u2019m my own grandpa<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Take a break today and listen to this old country song performed by Dennis Warner. Click here: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk. You\u2019ll need a pad and pencil to work out all the genealogy connections in this funny ballad loaded with connections on the old family tree. The song lyrics to \u201cI\u2019m My Own Grandpa\u201d are below for reference. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5284,5301,4745,1129,4746,4747,1656,1762,4739,4738,5197,5323,4748,5354,1761,5362,24,5439,5440,5450,5457],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-brother-in-law","tag-daughter","tag-dennis-weaver","tag-family","tag-family-history-humor","tag-family-history-songs","tag-family-tree","tag-father","tag-genealogy-humor","tag-genealogy-songs","tag-grandmother","tag-husband","tag-im-my-own-grandpa","tag-life","tag-mother","tag-mother-in-law","tag-music","tag-son","tag-son-in-law","tag-uncle","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}