Many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I married a widow as pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter with hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my life.
My daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife.
To complicate matters worse, 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, which made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who 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's 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!