Gayla Peevey I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas Lyrics

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas Lyrics

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

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 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



Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but
then

Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian



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 rhinoceroseses

I only like hippopotamuseses

And
hippopotamuses like me too!