The Redneck Family Tree (Redneck Humor)

Me

[annyokie]

The Redneck Family Tree

Many, many years ago when I was twenty three,

I got 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 the two were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life.

My daughter was my mother, for she was my father’s wife.

To complicate the matter worse, although 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, through it made me very sad.

For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother to the widow’s

Grown-up daughter who, of course, 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 make me blue.

Although she is my wife, she is my grandmother 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!

Steve Spurrier-gator4ever

[annyokie]

Sorry all! But, it's still funny!

Regards,

Anny

[thatsnotnice]

It sounds like a song performed by Ray Stevens (I don't know if he actually wrote it) called (oddly enough) "I'm my own grandpa."

[sit-rep]

BTTT!

See y'all later...

[annyokie]

I thought that too.

[NovemberCharlie]

I've heard it performed by the Muppets.

[sistergoldenhair]

Homer and Jethro, 1956.
Not tellin' if I remember the original.

[Lijahsbubbe]

You know you're a redneck when... you're family tree is a wreath!

[Common Tator]

It sounds like a song performed by Ray Stevens

It goes back to the Grand ole Opry in the early 1930's/ A comedy singing team known as Lonzo and Oscar did the song. Ray Stevens was not born, when Lonzo and Oscar did "I'm My own Grandpa." It may have even predated them.

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> Homer and Jethro, 1956.

BINGO.

>> Not tellin' if I remember the original.

Uh, I HAVE the original put away with my dad's old record collection. Haven't actually heard it in some 35 years, but I remember it well.

My stepdad, actually (my bilogical dad was killed when I was three). He was from Kentucky and enjoyed this type of music. He was raised on bluegrass (Git-Fiddle music, he called it, and that is also what he called his guitar, a gitfiddle). Actually wrote some of his own and played & sang them among friends and family. The events depicted in these ballads seem far fetched, but I have had a taste of that lifestyle, and those kinds of things are entirely reasonable to that American subculture. Few knew how to read and write - which doesn't mean they were stupid, you just don't need to know how to read to dig coal or cut timber or run moonshine. Folks didn't venture far from home, so extended families weren't very extended, if you know what I'm saying. In the town, if you want to call it that, where we lived for the brief time we were there, everybody was cousins. If you wanted to marry someone who wasn't a cousin, you had to go looking in the next county. I'm only half kidding.

Dave in Eugene

[sistergoldenhair]

Few knew how to read and write - which doesn't mean they were stupid,

Stupid: lacking intelligence
Ignorant: Lacking education
Never be confused.

[freedomlover]

Like you I was raised in the country and know first or second hand of what you speak. I miss some but not all of it.

For anyone interested I would suggest reading all of the FOXFIRE books (my wife gave me all of them for Christmas). I know the bit about the editor's sex habits but it doesn't change the contents of the books which are essentially transcripts of mountain folk tales.

[grammymoon]

Willie Nelson did this song too.
My grandson thinks it's the funniest....

[annyokie]

My 13 year old thinks it's a hoot, too!

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Sounds like the family tree is just one branch...