Rockingham Remembered
Short Stories
I'm My Own Grandpa!
Many, many years ago, when I was
twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as
could be. This widow had a grown-up
daughter who had hair of red. My father fell
in love with her, and soon they  too were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and really
changed my  life, now my daughter was my
mother, cause 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 then 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 of the
widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course,
was my stepmother.
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.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm
her grandchild, and every time I think of it, it
nearly drives me wild, cause now I have
become the strangest case you ever saw as
husband of my grandmother, I am my own
grandpa!

Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
it sounds funny I know  but it really is so,
oh, I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa...
it sounds funny I know
but it really is so