I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only hippopotamus will do

I don't want a doll, no dinky 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 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 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 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 vegetarian

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

I want a hippopotamus

I want it

I want it

I really really really want it

Hippopotamus

Hippopotamus

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only hippopotamus will do

I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy

I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

La la la la...

No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses

I only like hippopotamuseses

And hippopotamuses like me too!

Christmas...!