| I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
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| Only a hippopotamus will do Don’t want a doll
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| No donkey tinker toy
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| I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
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| I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
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| I don’t think Santa Clause will mind do you
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| He won’t have to use
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| A dirty chimney fleu
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| Just bring him through the front door
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| That’s the easy thing to do
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| I can see me now on Christmas morning
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| Creeping down the stairs
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| Oh a joy and what surprise
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| When I open up my eyes
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| To see a hippo hero standing there
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| I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
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| Only a hippopotamus will do No crocodiles
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| No rhinoceroses
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| I only like hippopotamuses
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| And hippopotamuses like me too swing it Mom says a hippo would eat me up but then
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| Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
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| There’s lots of room for him
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| In our two car garage
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| I’d feed him there
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| And wash him there
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| And give him his massage
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| I can see me now on Christmas morning
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| Creeping down the stairs
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| Oh a joy and what surprise
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| When I open up my eyes
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| To see a hippo hero standing there
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| I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
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| Only a hippopotamus will do No crocodiles
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| Or rhinoceroses
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| I only like hippopotamuses
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| And hippopotamuses like me too |