I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

Don't want a doll

No dinky tinker toys

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 a 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[Refrain]

Mom says a hippo would eat me up but then

Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

(Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way)

(La-la-la-la-la)

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

And see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles

Or rhinoceroses-es

I only like hippopotamuses-es

And hippopotamuses like me too, yeah[Outro:

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(I want a hippopotamus for Christmas)

(I want a hippopotamus for Christmas) Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

I want a hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus (I want a hippopotamus for Christmas)

Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

(I want a hippopotamus for Christmas) A little louder now! Come on!

(Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus) Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

Hip-hip-hip-hippopotamus

Mommy, I want a hippo

No, I don't want a rhinoceros, I want a hippo

I don't want a baby tiger

I told you I want a hippo

A house in Malibu with a Porsche and a hippopotamus

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Hippopotamus) Ooo

(Hippopotamus) Ooo

Ooo (Hippopotamus)

Ooooooo

(Hippopotamus) Ooo

(Hippopotamus) Ooo

(Hippopotamus) Ooo

Ooo (Hippopotamus)

Ooooooo