Lyrics I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas - John Rox

I Want a Hippopatamus for Christmas

I want a hippopotamus for christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll
No dinky dinker toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for christmas
I don’t think that’s a problem, why, do you?
He won’t have to use a dirty chimney broom
Just swing him through the front door-
That’s the easy thing to do!
I can see me now on christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
What a 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 crocodile, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses!
And hippopotamuses like me too!
Mum says a hippo would eat me up for din,
Teacher says hippo is a vegetarian!
There’s lots of room for him
In with our car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his mustache
I can see me now on christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
What a joy and what surprise
When i open up my eyes
And see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopatamus for christmas
Only a hippopatamus will do
No crocodile, no rhinoceroseses,
I only like hippopatamuseses!
And hippopatamuses like me too!