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From: "KHarrison" <>
Subject: [NCBERTIE] Genealogy humor
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:57:12 -0500


> Subject: Family Tree
> > >
> > > Many many years ago
> > >
> > > when I was twenty three,
> > >
> > > I got 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 the two were wed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This made my dad my son-in-law
> > >
> > > And changed my very life.
> > >
> > > My daughter was my mother,
> > >
> > > For she was my father's wife.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > To complicate the matters worse,
> > >
> > > Although 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
> > >
> > > To the widow's grown-up daughter
> > >
> > > Who, of course, was my step-mother.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Father's wife then had a son,
> > >
> > > Who kept them on the run.
> > >
> > > And he became my grandson,
> > >
> > > 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 is my grandma too.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If my wife is my grandmother,
> > >
> > > Then I am her grandchild.
> > >
> > > And every time I think of it,
> > >
> > > It simply drives me wild.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > For now I have become
> > >
> > > The strangest case you ever saw.
> > >
> > > As the husband of my grandmother,
> > >
> > > I am my own grandpa.


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