>This week's edition of John Peel's "Home Truths" programme included >a listener suggestion for "I'm My Own Grandpaw" from one Phil Taylor. > >Could he by any chance be a subscriber to this list, and have an ABC >version of the song?
It winsnae me, honest! However, I do happen to have the words from the Lonzo and Oscar version: 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 Now 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 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 a brother-in-law to dad And so became my uncle though it made me mighty sad For if he was my uncle then it also made him brother Of the widow's grown-up daughter who of course was my stepmother Chorus Father's wife then had a son who kept him 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 Chorus Now if my wife is my grandmother then I'm her grandchild And every time I think of it it nearly drives me wild For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw As husband of my grandmother I am my own grandpa Chorus >(US readers probably can't get the programme: it's a human-interest >show run by the UK's most celebrated radio DJ, mainly made up from >contributions from the audience. From what I've heard of Garrison >Keillor there are some similarities to what he does; ranges from very >touching to dead funny to toe-curlingly dull depending on what comes >in. It has its own website somewhere within the BBC Radio 4 pages. >Family relationships as convoluted as the song are a specialty). As it happens, I have just been told by two of my offspring that I am about to become a grandfather twice over. Happy New Year everybody! And if you listen to the John Peel show tonight at 10 you can hear a session by James Yorkston and the Athletes, two of whose members are my son and daughter, and whose current album is number one in the Rough Trade top 100. <http://www.roughtrade.com/docs/top_100_2002.htm> Happy New Year to Reuben and Holly! Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
