Pedigree Bonus
(5 points)
Read, listen, or print the following lyrics to the song.
Attempt to draw a pedigree of this man’s family.
There is no need to identify any traits.
Do the work on your own; no help from any other student.
Hand in the pedigree only “on or before” the announced due
date.
Many, many years ago when I was just
twenty-three,
I was married to a widow, she was pretty
as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who
had hair of red
And my father fell in Love with her.
Soon they too were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law--changed
my very life!
My daughter was my mother because 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 he then became a
brother-in-law to Dad.
Well, that made him my uncle--made me
very sad!
Because if he was my uncle then he also
was a brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who,
of course, was my stepmother.
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My father's wife then had a son who kept
them on the run.
And, of course, he became my grandchild
because he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother and
this makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's
my grandmother too!
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Now if my wife is my grandmother, well,
then I am her grandchild,
And every time that I think about this,
it nearly drives me wild!
Because now I have become the strangest
case that you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I’m my own grandpa!
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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!