D                           A   
Now many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
                                     D
I was married to a widder who was pretty as can be
                                       G
This widder had a grown up daughter who had hair of red
   E                            A
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed.

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

[Verse 3]
     D                           A
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
                                     D
And so became my uncle though it made me very sad
                                       G
For if he was my uncle then that also made him brother 
   E                            A
Of the widder's grown up daughter who of course was my step-mother.

[Verse 4]
     D                           A
Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run 
                                     D
And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter's son 
                                       G
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue 
   E                            A
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.

[Verse 5]
     D                           A
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
                                     D
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild 
                                       G
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw 
   E                            A
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa.

[Chorus]
D       A        D   G       G7       A
I'm my own grand-pa. I'm my own grand-pa.
          D                    G
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so
    D      A         D
Oh, I'm my own grand-pa.