I'm My Own Grandpa - Steve Goodman 6/28/80-l5

Steve Goodman was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. Goodman was diagnosed with leukemia while attending college, and he set out to make the most of the time he had left to write music. A prolific writer, Goodman is best known for penning "City of New Orleans," a song made popular by Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson, for which Goodman won his first Grammy Award posthumously in 1985, with a second Grammy awarded to him in 1988 for Unfinished Business. Today, the Chicago Cubs professional baseball team plays "Go, Cubs, Go" at the conclusion of each home game, a song Goodman wrote for his beloved team.
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[@newyorkslim2001]

Stevie Goodman! God what a talent! The world was blessed to have him among us!

[@jphader]

"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.. here sung by one of the greatest story tellers the world has ever heard .. RIP .. ~ Steve Goodman ..

[@fusioncruisindeb]

I learned it off a record, too. Oh me - George Jones was on it, and Don Gibson....many goodies

[@alpennsygg1]

A fun old song, and Steve does it justice

[@zelieblue]

A brilliant man taken oh so soon!

[@tmee1512]

The state song of West Virginia....

[@fretfix1]

Seeing Steve in Telluride is my idea of heaven.😇

[@DavidByers1eye]

Thank You . . . 1 Eye . . .

[@educationalramblings6826]

That song always gives me a headache….. and a laugh 😂

[@BigMamou367]

Funny he would sing that old hillbilly song. My Dad is 89 and loves it. Actually I love this guy but I love the old version best. But his here you can understand.

[@zelieblue]

I love it! Thank you!

[@nbuehster]

New verse: Many many years have passed, and soon we got divorced It made me very sad 'cause she was my true love, of course We finally got things settled and my heart was full of Glee And I'm so glad it didn't change our special family tree Someone helped me with the last second half on another video. Also, I didn't know he made a version of this. It's definitely something Steve Goodman would cover.

[@manscherhilberry1046]

i love you. ty

[@lisabeta1451]

Am in this state

[@banjobandit3270]

Lonzo and Oscar song

[@zahirhaqq7252]

🤣

[@zahirhaqq7252]

😂

[@madmartigan4077]

I liked his version of City Of New Orleans better.

[@brianenewton75]

Because he played it right! (He wrote it lol)