The words to this song were printed on the Pendleton list. They are as appropriate, if not more so, to the intermingled, intermarried families in Webster and Randolph Counties. -- dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone: 330-454-2376 ---------- > From: Nedra Dickman Brill <brillnd@pacifier.com> > Reply-To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:30:28 -0700 > To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVPENDLE] Fwd: I'M MY OWN GRANDPA > Resent-From: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:05:33 -0700 > > Remember this song from the 50's or 60's? > >> I'M MY OWN GRANDPA - ( Lonzo & Oscar ) >> >> Many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three, >> >> I was married to a widow as pretty as can 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, >> >> For my daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife. >> >> To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, >> >> I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy. >> >> >> My little baby thus 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 him on the run. >> >> And he became my grandchild 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! >> >> Oh, if my wife's my grandmother then I am her grandchild, >> >> And every time I think of it, it nearly 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. >> >> Chorus >> >> I'm my own grandpa >> >> I'm my own grandpa >> >> It sounds funny I know, but it really is so >> >> I'm my own grandpa. > > > Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist brillnd@pacifier.com > > Participating Societies Chairman, > NGS Conference, 16-19 May 2001, Portland, Oregon. > For information on the conference, go to: > http://www.gfo.org/ngs2001/index.htm > > Historian, Henckel Family National Association > Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, wvpendle-l@rootsweb.com > > CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, > used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. > http://www.bcgcertification.org/ > > > > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > Plan now to attend the 2001 National Genealogical Society Conference, > 16-19 May 2001, Portland, Oregon. > For information go to: http://www.gfo.org/ngs2001/index.htm >