Story Behind The Song

My mother got remarried to my father's brother, which made my mother my aunt, my uncle my father, my brother my cousin, my cousin my sister, my father my uncle; and I'm my own cousin.

Song Description

´Feudin' in my family is the custom. ´Nearest I can figure is it's somethin' happens every generation. It's a messy situation.

Lyrics

Feudin' in the Family (



Verse ´Feudin' in my family is the 'custom, so it seems
´Nearest I can figure is it's 'somethin' in our genes
What ´keeps the feudin' goin' happens 'every generation
When a ´brother steals his brother's wife there's a 'messy situation

Verse They ´tell me it all started back in 'eighteen fifty-nine
Fella ´by the name a Nate consumed a 'canteen fulla 'shine
Stole his ´brother's wife while boozin' on that 'batcha new corn whiskey
After ´what the brother done to him, he weren't 'apt ta be so frisky

Chorus This 'feudin' in the family seems to 'just keep goin' on and on
It 'seems all the brothers 'in my family
Run 'off with whose ever 'wife is handy
'Even though we 'know it's all wrong
It 'tends to keep us from 'gettin' along
But we 'all agree, prob'ly 'always be
This 'Feudin' in the Family

Verse My re-'lations are so mixed up that a 'person can't keep track
And the ´men all love their brothers like a 'spurrin' in the back
Like ´when my uncle married Ma, Oh 'My! how Pa was cussin'
But ´that made Ma my Auntie May, and 'I'm now my own cousin

Verse I've 'often said I'd try to stop this 'fightin' if I can
But ´now there's somethin goin' 'tween my 'wife 'n brother Dan
The ´last fight is all settled, guess we're 'due ta start another
´Pa and Unc are friends again, but I'm 'feudin' with my brother

(Repeat Chorus)