C                                        G
Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
                               G7                     C
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
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This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red,
       D                D7                           G       G7
my father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed.

[Verse 2]
           C                                             G
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
                                    G7                     C
my daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
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To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
     D                       D7               G      G7
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

[Verse 3]
        C                                        G
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
                                G7                   C
and so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
                            C7             Dm
For if he was my uncle, that also made him brother
            D                           D7                        G     G7
of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

[Chorus]
C         G             C   F         Dm     G
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa!
                 C            C7             F     D
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
       C          G       C
oh, I'm my own grandpa!

[Verse 4]
       C                                                 G
My father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
                                  G7                       C
and he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
                                C7                      Dm
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
       D                       D7                  G     G7
because she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

[Chorus]
C         G             C   F         Dm     G
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa!
                 C            C7             F     D
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
       C          G       C
oh, I'm my own grandpa!

[Verse 5]
          C                                               G
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
                            G7               C
and every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild.
                              C7                         Dm
For now, I have become the strangest case you ever saw,
       D                      D7                   G     G7
as the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

[Chorus]
C         G             C   F         Dm     G
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa!
                 C            C7             F     D
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
       C          G       C
oh, I'm my own grandpa!

[Chorus]
C         G             C   F         Dm     G
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa!
                 C            C7             F     D
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
       C          G       C
oh, I'm my own grandpa!