Duplikater i slektstreet - "I'm my own grandpa"

[Åsbjørg Susort]

Eg har i mitt slektstre ein som gifta seg med enka etter sin farfar. Det gikk greitt når bare presten fekk sitt...

Nettopp kobla foreldre til ei dame som då blei (ste)svigermor til sin 7 år eldre halvbror.

Noen ganger er det vanskelig å holde tunga beint i rett munn 😧

 

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was 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 they too were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife
And 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 a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother

Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, 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's my grandmother too

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

I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I'm my own grandpa

 

https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/euwflw/im_my_own_grandpa/

 

Endret August 7, 2023 av Åsbjørg Susort

[Dag Thorsdalen]

For ikke å forglemme Øystein Sundes norske versjon av den samme teksten, som flere ganger har ljomet i bakhodet mitt når jeg har kommet over kompliserte familieforhold:

 

For ganske mange år siden, da jeg var 25
jeg gifta meg med ei jente som var gift og skilt igjen.
Jenta hadde ei datter som fylte 19 år
som fatter'n blei så gla' i, at'n gifta seg me'a å.

 

Dermed ble min far min svigersønn,
en riktig grepa kar.
Min datter ble min mor,
for hun var kona til min far.
Og ikke nok med det, selv om gleden var på topp,
så ble jeg snart pappa til en spretten guttesopp

 

Min nyligfødte sønn ble dermed svoger til min far.
Og dermed ble'n min onkel, den eneste jeg har.
Det er klart han er min onkel, fordi han er jo bror
til min kones voksne datter, som igjen er min stemor.

 

Og jeg er min egen bestefar
Ja, jeg er min egen bestefar.
Det er kokeliko,
men det gjør ikke no'
for jeg er min egen bestefar.

 

(Gitarsolo)

 

Da fatter'ns unge kone fikk en sønn, da ble jeg grønn.
For den ble da mitt barnebarn, for han var min pappas sønn.
Min kone er nå min moders moder, men det gjø'kke det spor,
for selv om hu er kona mi, så er'a også min bestemor.

 

Og da er jeg er min egen bestefar
Ja, jeg er min egen bestefar.
Det er litt kokeliko,
men det gjør ikke no'
for jeg er min egen bestefar.

 

Øystein Sunde - Jeg Er Min Egen Bestefar Sangtekst (letssingit.com)

 

Endret August 7, 2023 av Dag Thorsdalen
Korrektur

[Åsbjørg Susort]

Hadde ikkje fått med meg den 😄

 

[Jackie K Marler]

Something very similar in this book on page 139 titled "A Philadelphian committed suicide and left the following note:  I married a widow with a grown daughter.  My father fell in love with my step-daughter and married her--thus becoming my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother because she was my father's wife.  My wife gave birth to a son, who was, of course, my father's brother-in-law, and also my uncle for he was the brother of my step-mother.  My father's wife became the mother of a son, who was, of course, my brother and also my grand=child for he was the son of my daughter.  Accordingly, my wife was my grandmother because she was my mother's mother--I was my wife's husband and grandchild at the same time--and, as the husband of a person's grandmother is his grandfather--I AM MY OWN GRANDFATHER!      Mark Twain."  The Big Book was published in 1940 and Mark Twain who was quoted for this,  was of course long dead.  No music, though!

Endret August 7, 2023 av Jackie K Marler