I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no d___ey 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 crocodiles, no rhinosauruses
I only likes 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 crocodiles,or rhinosauruseses
I only likes hippopotamuseses
and hippopotamuses like me, too

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