I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

Album: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time Vol. 6: Christmas (1953)
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  • I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
    Only a hippopotamus will do
    Don't want a doll, no dinkey tinker toy
    I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
    I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
    He won't have to use a dirty chimney flue
    Just bring him through the front door
    That's the easy thing to do

    I can see me now on Christmas morning
    Creeping down the stairs
    Oh what joy and what surprise
    When I open up my eyes
    To see a hippo hero standing there

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
    Only a hippopotamus will do
    No crocodile, no rhinosauruses
    I only like hippopotamuses
    And hippopotamuses like me too

    Mom says a hippo, would eat me up but then
    Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

    There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
    I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

    I can see me now on Christmas morning
    Creeping down the stairs
    Oh what joy and what surprise
    When I open up my eyes
    To see a hippo hero standing there

    I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
    Only a hippopotamus will do
    No crocodile, or rhinosauruseses
    I only like hippopotamuses
    And hippopotamuses like me too Writer/s: John Rox
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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