I'm My Own Grandpa chords by
Lightnin' Wells

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Key: D major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Now many,
many years ago
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when I was twenty -three,
I was married to a widow
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who was pretty as can be.
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Am Am 
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This widow had a grown -up daughter
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who had hair of red.
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My father fell in love with her
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and soon they too were wed.
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This made my dad my son -in -law
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and changed my very life.
For my daughter was my mother
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cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter
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even though it brought me joy,
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I  soon became the father
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of a bouncing baby boy.
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My little baby then became a
brother -in -law to dad
And so became my uncle,
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though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
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C C 
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then that also made him brother
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Of the widow's grown -up daughter,
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who, of course, was my stepmother.
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I'm my own grandpa.
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I'm my own grandpa.
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C C 
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It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so.
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I'm my own grandpa.
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G G 
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My father's wife then had a son
who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild
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for he was my daughter's son
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My wife is now my mother's mother
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an d it makes me blue
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Because although she is my wife,
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she's my grandmother too.
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Now if my wife is my grandmother,
then I'm her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
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it nearly drives me wild.
For now I have become
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the strangest case you ever saw.
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As husband of my grandmother,
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I'm my own grandpa.
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D D 
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I'm my own grandpa.
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D D 
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I'm my own grandpa.
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D D 
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C C 
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It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
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I'm my own grandpa.

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