I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - A Great Big World
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a dog,
no inky dinker 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 our 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 crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up,but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian
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
I want a hippopotamus
I want I want I really really really
want a hippopotamus hippopotamus
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a dog,
no inky dinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Christmas