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"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as "I'm My Own Grandpaw") is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, about a man who, through an unlikely (but legal) combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother — that is, tacitly dropping the "step-" modifiers, he becomes his own grandfather. In the 1930s, Latham had a group, the Jesters, on network radio; their specialties were bits of spoken humor and novelty songs. While reading a book of Mark Twain anecdotes, he once found a paragraph in which Twain proved it would be possible for a man to become his own grandfather. In 1947, Latham and Jaffe expanded the idea into a song, which became a hit for Lonzo and Oscar. ==Genealogy== Family tree showing how the narrator of the song is his own grandfather. In the song, the narrator marries a widow with an adult daughter. Subsequently, his father marries the widow's daughter. This creates a comic tangle of relationships by a mixture of blood and marriage; for example, the narrator's father is now also his stepson-in-law. The situation is complicated further when both couples have children. Although the song continues to mention that both the narrator's wife and stepdaughter had children by the narrator and his father, respectively, the narrator actually becomes "his own grandpa" once his father marries the woman's daughter. *The narrator marries the older woman. * *This results in the woman's daughter becoming his stepdaughter. *Subsequently, the narrator's father marries the older woman's daughter. * *The woman's daughter, being the new wife of the narrator's father, is now both his stepdaughter and his stepmother. Concurrently, the narrator's father, being his stepdaughter's husband, is also his own stepson-in-law. * * *The narrator's wife, being the mother of his stepmother, makes her both spouse and step-grandmother. * * * *The husband of the narrator's wife would then be the narrator's step-grandfather. Since the narrator is that person, he has managed to become his own (step-step)grandfather. The "step-step" concept applies because the step-father of your step-mother would be your step-step-grandfather, making a "double step" event possible. The song continues with *The narrator and his wife having a son. * *The narrator's son immediately becomes the half-brother of his stepdaughter, as the narrator's wife is the mother of both. * * *Since his stepdaughter is also his stepmother, then the narrator's son is also his own step-and/or half-uncle because he is the (half-)brother of his (step-)mother. * * * *The Narrator's son would then become a brother-in-law to the narrator's father, because he is the (half-)brother of the father's wife. *The narrator's father and his wife (the narrator's stepdaughter) then had a son of their own. * *The child would then become the narrator's grandson because he is the son of his (step-)daughter. * * *The son would also become the (half-)brother of the narrator because his father is also the narrator's. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I'm My Own Grandpa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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