Who has sung the song "I am my own grandfather"?

Answer 1

Lookeee what i found! lol

Many, many years ago when I was just twenty-three,
I was married to a widow, she was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
And my father fell in Love with her. Soon they too were wed.


This made my dad my son-in-law--changed my very life!
My daughter was my mother because 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 he then became a brother-in-law to Dad.
Well, that made him my uncle--made me very sad!
Because if he was my uncle then he also was a brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

CHORUS

My father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run.
And, of course, he became my grandchild because he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother and this makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too!

CHORUS

Now if my wife is my grandmother, well, then I am her grandchild,
And every time that I think about this, it nearly drives me wild!
Because now I have become the strangest case that you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I’m my own grandpa!

CHORUS:

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!

First time i heard this song was in the movie "the stupids" sang by TOM ARNOLD, that movie is hilarious! Also Ray Stevens was one of the more popular singers of this song.


More info:
"RECORDINGS: Grandpa Jones, "I'm My Own Grandpa" (King 694, 1948)
Korn Kobblers, "I'm My Own Grandpaw" (MGM 10136, 1948)
Lonzo & Oscar, "I'm My Own Grandpa" (RCA Victor 20-2563, 1947)
Notes: This is included because it seems to have begun passing into oral tradition [or at least universal folklore - RBW] -- certainly it appears often enough on the internet (in geneology sites!) without attribution. The song is based on a short story by Mark Twain. - PJS
AUTHOR: Dwight Latham & Moe Jaffe"

Answer 2

Tom Paxton
Ralph Covert

Answer 3

It was written by a dueo names Lonzo and Oscar

Answer 4

Tom Arnold, among others.

Answer 5

i have and I got about 10 other girls at work to all sing it too . . .so we work night shift that makes us a lil freaky

Answer 6

We used to sing it all the time.
It's "I'm my own grandpa".

http://www.ziplo.com/grandpa.htm

Answer 7

ray stevens i'm my own grandpa

Answer 8

chevy chase

Answer 9

Me...it's pretty funny

Answer 10

isn't it in that film "the stupids?"