There was a line that went like this, and that was the punchline. Reportedly it came from a suicide note. My questions:
Does anyone know exactly how the story went?
Is it true? Did it really emerge from a suicide note?
There was a country song, many years ago, called (IIRC) “I’m My Own Grandpa”. There were various marriages and remarriages that led to the situation.
Try http://www.clinton.net/~sammy/grandpa.htm, the first return from a Google search for “my own grandpa”. It seems to include a MIDI file, but this PC doesn’t handle it.
The second item looks like a text version of a similar story.
Now many many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widder who was pretty as could be
This widder had a growed-up daughter, had the 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 'cause 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 then became the brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, oh this made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, that also made him brother
To the widder’s growed-up daughter who of course was my stepmother…
I’m my own grandpa…
(From a bluegrass song on a record I have)
That song used to show up on the Dr. Demento show. It was written in 1947 by Dwight Latham & Moe Jaffe. Here are the lyrics: http://www.banned-width.com/misc/grandpa.html . If you use Napster, keywords “grandpa” and “demento” should bring it up.
This seems to be what your talking about.
http://www.farsinet.com/jafang/indexv.html#whoami
It’s a mock suicide note on a humour page.
**you’re you’re you’re you’re **
I swear. :rolleye: