{"id":2249,"date":"2009-06-19T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2009-06-20T05:35:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T10:35:21","slug":"im-my-own-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m My Own Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bring you these lyrics in honor of Duluth&#8217;s City Attorneys whose tortured logic is laid out like a dead man for all to see on the post <em><strong>&#8220;A story I shouldn&#8217;t have gotten&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> in Brandon Stahl&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areavoices.com\/buzz\/\">Buzz Duluth Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m My Own Grandpa<br \/>\nLyrics: Dwight Latham, Moe Jaffe<br \/>\nMusic: Dwight Latham, Moe Jaffe<\/p>\n<p>Played by Jerry Garcia with David Grisman <\/p>\n<p>Oh, many, many years ago<br \/>\nWhen I was twenty-three<br \/>\nI was married to a widow<br \/>\nWho was pretty as can be<br \/>\nThis widow had a grown-up daughter<br \/>\nWho had hair of red<br \/>\nMy father fell in love with her<br \/>\nAnd soon the two were wed<\/p>\n<p>This made my dad my son-in-law<br \/>\nAnd changed my very life<br \/>\nFor my daughter was my mother<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause she was my father&#8217;s wife<br \/>\nTo complicate the matter<br \/>\nThough it really brought me joy<br \/>\nI soon became the father<br \/>\nOf a bouncing baby boy<\/p>\n<p>This little baby then became<br \/>\nA brother-in-law to Dad<br \/>\nAnd so became my uncle<br \/>\nThough it made me very sad<br \/>\nFor if he was my uncle<br \/>\nThen that also made him brother<br \/>\nOf the widow&#8217;s grown-up daughter<br \/>\nWHo of course is my step-mother<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\nI&#8217;m my own grandpa<br \/>\nI&#8217;m my own grandpa<br \/>\nIt sounds funny I know<br \/>\nBut it really is so<br \/>\nOh, I&#8217;m my own grandpa<\/p>\n<p>My father&#8217;s wife then had a son<br \/>\nWho kept them on the run<br \/>\nAnd he became my grandchild<br \/>\nFor he was my daughter&#8217;s son<br \/>\nMy wife is now my mother&#8217;s mother<br \/>\nAnd it makes me blue<br \/>\nBecause although she is my wife<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s my grandmother too<\/p>\n<p>Now if my wife is my grandmother<br \/>\nThen I&#8217;m her grandchild<br \/>\nAnd every time I think of it<br \/>\nIt nearly drives me wild<br \/>\nFor now I have become<br \/>\nThe strangest case you ever saw<br \/>\nAs husband of my grandma<br \/>\nI am my own grandpa<\/p>\n<p>[chorus]<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Send your check and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/pledge.htm\">a pledge <\/a>today. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bring you these lyrics in honor of Duluth&#8217;s City Attorneys whose tortured logic is laid out like a dead man for all to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}