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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Willie Nelson has a song explaining this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I’mmm my own grandpaaaa, it soundss funny i knoww but it really is sooo, oh I’mmm my own grandpaaa

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For those looking for it, it's "I'm My Own Grandpa, which is a cover of The Jester's "I'm My Own Grandpaw".

Writers Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe were inspired by a short Mark Twain story from the 1889 collection Wit and Humor of the Age:

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"Well, Sam, I'll tell you how it is. You see, I married a widow, and this widow had a daughter. Then my father, being a widower, married our daughter, so you see my father is my own son-in-law."

"Yes, I see."

"Then again my step-daughter is my step-mother, ain't she? Well, then, her mother is my grandmother, ain't she? I am married to her, ain't I? So that makes me my own grand-father, doesn't it?"