I'm My Own Grandpa
Ray Stevens
Begins in the key of "G"

INTRO : Strum the  G chord

VERSE ONE

G                               D 
Now many many years ago... when I was twenty-three.
                                     G
I was married to a widow... who was pretty as can be.
G                   E                    Am
This widow ...had a grown-up daughter... who had hair of red.
   A              A7                D                
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed.


VERSE TWO

     G                                D  
This made my dad... my son-in-law and really changed my very life.  
                                       G
My daughter was my mother...'cause she was my father's wife.
   G              E             Am
To complicate the matter...even though it brought me joy.
   A              A7            D  
I soon became the father...of a bouncing baby boy.


INSTRUMENTAL TURNAROUND :      D  -   A   -   D


VERSE THREE

    G                          D
My little baby then became...a brother-in-law to Dad
                                     G
And so became my uncle, ...though it made me very sad
 G                E                  Am                             
For if he was my uncle, ...then that also made him brother                          
       A                 A7                D                D slide to Eb
Of the widow's grown-up daughter...who was also my stepmother


VERSE FOUR

 Ab                                Eb
Father's wife then had a son...who kept them on the run
                                      Ab
And he became my grandchild,...for he was my daughter's son
 Ab               F                        Bbm
My wife is now my mother's mother...and it makes me blue
B                   B7                Eb                   Eb slide to E   
Because although she is my wife,...she's my grandmother too


VERSE FIVE
    A                                    E
Now if my wife is my grandmother,...then I'm her grandchild
                                   A
And every time I think of it,...it nearly drives me wild.
    A          F#            Bm                             
For now I have become...the strangest case you ever saw
    B             B7                              E
As husband of my grandmother,...I am my own grand-pa.


CHORUS

     A      E         A
Oh...I'm my own grand-pa. 
D                E
I'm my own grand-pa.
 	   A                    D                    
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so
    A      E         A
Oh, I'm my own grand-pa.

A
Listen to this now

A      E         A  
I'm my own grand-pa. 
D                E
I'm my own grand-pa.
 	   A                    D                    
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so
    A      E         A
Oh, I'm my own grand-pa.